Nigeria - Dozens More Girls Abducted by Nigerian Extremists

FILE - In this 2014 file photo, Martha Mark, the mother of kidnapped school girl Monica Mark cries as she displays her photo, in the family house, in Chibok, Nigeria. Dozens of girls and young women are being abducted by Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria, raising doubts about an announced cease-fire and hopes for the release of 219 schoolgirls held captive since April. Thirty...

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Time of Great Challenges for Women Human Rights Defenders Protection, Security, Support

In these times of armed conflict, war, abductions, graphic abuse of women and girls, imprisonment, executions....human rights defenders are at exceedingly high risk. Women human rights defenders are particularly vulnerable for sexual violence, exclusion, repudiation. We as advocates have organized multiple global interventions to put pressure to protect the rights of human rights defenders. But,...

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DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian womens lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16 year old trying to divorce her 38 year old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to...

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Egypt - 23 Women Rights Defenders Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

CAIRO, Oct 26 – A Cairo Misdemeanour court sentenced on Sunday 23 defendants charged with violating the protest law to three years in prison and a 10 thousand Egyptian-pound fine. Sanaa Seif, sister of prominent political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, was arrested alongside 23 others on June 21 while taking part in a march calling for the repeal of the protest law and the release of all those arrested...

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REYHANEH JABBARI WAS EXECUTED BY HANGING FOR KILLING A MAN SHE SAID TRIED TO SEXUALLY ABUSE HER

IRAN HANGS WOMAN DESPITE INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO SAVE HER October 25, 2014 - Iran has executed a 26-year-old woman convicted for killing a man who she said tried to sexually abuse her. Reyhaneh Jabbari's execution was due to be carried out on September 30 but was postponed for 10 days [AP] Reyhaneh Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali...

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19 Days of Activism for prevention of abuse and violence against children and youth 1-19 November

The 19 Days Campaign is a WWSF initiative launched in 2011 by the Children-Youth Section and sponsored by the Women's World Summit Foundation - WWSF and other partners. As a multi-issue coalition of diverse partners using the 19 Days Campaign as an organizing strategy in the fight against at least one of the 19 abuse/violence issues presented in the list of campaign themes, you help create a world fit for...

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Girl Child

Sarah Bones - International Photojournalist Does This Guatemala Girl/Mother Know that TODAY Is the International Day of the Girl Child? Girl Child - PoemDreams Your Dreams Little OneWe Are Standing All Around YouYour Fears And Trials Will Also Be OursYou Will Walk With The Courage Of Women WorldwideWe Will Speak When You CannotWe Will Gather When You Are StillWe Are Here To Serve You Girl ChildYou...

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Explaining the Principle of Non Discrimination

IWRAW Asia Pacific presents CEDAW Quick & Concise video series to explain the  CEDAW principles. This video explains the principle of Non Disrimination.  http://www.frequency.com/video/cedaw-quick-concise-explaining-principle/193999310?cid=5-1...

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Explaining the Principle of State Obligation

IWRAW Asia Pacific presents CEDAW Quick & Concise video series to explain the  CEDAW principles. This video explains the principle of State Obligation. http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2013/06/day-230-principle-of-need-and-principle.h...

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