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In coup-riddled Guinea, women have also been the target of violence. Anonymously circulating cellphone images reveal sexual molestation and physical beatings of women done in public. ‘They show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses [...]

In the light of immigrant mothers taking their Europe-born daughters on vacation to Africa to be circumcised, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are on a campaign to stop perpetrators of genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad. These perpetrators are usually the mothers. The countries are ‘fighting the traffic [...]

During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is violence against [...]

One of the countries known to be notorious in violating women’s rights is finally making into law a measure that makes violence against women a criminal offense. At least, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is about to sign the bill into law. If the law, indeed, gets passed, ‘men who bar women from getting an education, working, or obtaining healthcare [...]

One of the collaborative sponsorship efforts between the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is a significant research conducted by Global Rights: Partners for Justice and Afghan civil society which discloses the finding that ‘violations of women in Afghanistan are a daily occurrence around the [...]

In Afghanistan and Eastern Congo, there is more than the undermining of the political, judicial, and civil rights of women. In these two countries, women are not considered as fellow humans to men. The treatment of women in these countries is beyond degrading; it is barbaric, even bizarre. Hatred towards the female is cultural in these parts of the [...]

According to a complaint of Amnesty International (AI), women in Iraq suffer from systematic discrimination and violence directed against them specifically because of their gender. AI has also noted that Iraqi law allows ‘honorable motives’ in murder cases of women by their husbands, parents, and teachers. These result in exemption from criminal [...]

Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women has led to attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping. More often, this stereotype is comparatively considered ‘less,’ ’weak,’ and ‘inferior.’ At times, the attitude towards the disadvantaged sex is contempt, disregard, or hatred. Sexism occurs when [...]

Religion, regionalism and lack of education can be a disastrous combination. Bangalore is advertised as the land of opportunities, where technological parks provide immense opportunities for outsiders. Unfortunately, the city is far from this idyllic image. It is a city dominated by hostile regionalists, religious goons and women attackers. The city [...]

At the age of 15, Theron saw her mother fatally shoot her alcoholic father as he went on a drunken rampage. She previously won an Oscar for her portrayal of real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a victim of violence and abuse, who was executed in Florida in 2002. She tackled sexual harassment through her character in the 2005 film North Country. [...]