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The new reforms outlined in the June 2011 Moroccan constitution can be grouped in three major categories: separation of powers, independence of justice, and good governance. However there are other key reforms that have received less attention, but will have a major impact on Moroccan society, including a recognition of Morocco’s multicultural roots, a greater recognition of gender equality and more freedom of speech.
Despite great strides in education and employment, a large gender gap remains in positions of status.
Australia - Protesters gathered in Melbourne's CBD to rally against a child beauty pageant being held at Northcote, in the city's north, in which babies as young as two months old were enrolled.
It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain," recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience.
It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain," recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience. Breast cancer continues to be misunderstood, under-diagnosed and fatal, particularly in developing countries, say researchers, despite more than one million official annual diagnoses and almost half a million recorded deaths annually.
Papua New Guinea politician and Somare supporter Dame Carol Kidu is planning to form a one-woman opposition to Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's government.
The young Afghan woman gave birth to a third girl three months ago — to a husband, the authorities say, who had been demanding a boy.
Japan’s population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 per cent of people by 2060, placing a greater burden on a smaller working-age population to support the social security and tax systems.
Despite an increasing feeling of empowerment experienced by many Egyptian women during and after the revolution, they continue to be sexually harassed and abused by men in public on a daily basis, as recent coverage of events in Cairo—from “virginity tests” conducted by the military to male assaults on female protesters—illustrated.
The political uprisings that swept across the Arab world over the past year represent the most significant challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism. In a region that had seemed immune to democratic change, coalitions of activist reformers and ordinary citizens succeeded in removing dictators who had spent decades entrenching themselves in power.
In Tanzania's remote Newala District, adolescent girls are met with unwanted sexual advances on their way to the neighbor's house, to the water well, to the store. They feel forced to give in. Sometimes, they're raped. Girls are even scared to go to school because, they say, some teachers "just want to have sex with you."
In Tanzania's remote Newala District, adolescent girls are met with unwanted sexual advances on their way to the neighbor's house, to the water well, to the store. They feel forced to give in. Sometimes, they're raped. Girls are even scared to go to school because, they say, some teachers "just want to have sex with you."
Women should be the focus of efforts to bring access to modern energy to those who lack it, a new United Nations report has found, as bringing energy to women and girls helps lift communities out of poverty and improves health.
We were told this would not happen. We were told to just let the bill pass and read it later. Well, we are reading it now. And the fine print doesn't look good for religious freedom.
Betty Makoni, Founder and Director of Girl Child Network (GCN) Zimbabwe is also Chief Executive Officer of Girl Child Network. Worldwide Girl Child Network Worldwide is an organization that champions the rights of the girl child globally. http://www.girlchildnetworkworldwide.org/about/
Trafficking of women and children is an organized crime that violates basic human rights. A core element of UNODC’s mandate under the U.N. Trafficking Protocol is to increase the level of protection and assistance provided to victims of human trafficking crimes.
Manal was born and raised in Lebanon’s Nahr al-Bared refugee camp into a family of veteran entrepreneurs.
Following a meeting on 18th of January 2011, the Guardian Council ratified the final text of the new Islamic Penal Code and did not find any part of this code to be in contravention of Islamic Sharia law and the Iranian Constitution. Passage of this code renders the former penal Code ineffective, providing the new and more severe code as replacement.
Internally displaced women in Colombia are organizing themselves to secure their rights to housing, education and health care. But along with this come threats, violence and dissatisfied husbands. Is it worth it?
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