women’s rights

Women make better corporate leaders than men, study finds

by News Sources 04.01.2013

Healthline News: Women have more than a “good head for business.” Researchers find they actually have a different cognitive approach to corporate decision making, which may help the bottom line. Female Directors “Vive la différence,” as the French are fond of saying. A new study published in the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics [...]

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War’s silent scourge: sexual violence against women

by News Sources 11.25.2012

Melanne Verveer and Peter Westmacott write: Nearly 40,000 people have died already in Syria’s civil war, and close to 100 are still being killed each day. Homes, hospitals, water infrastructure, and sanitation systems have been destroyed. But one element of this ongoing brutality has been largely overlooked in the media: the appalling sexual violence being [...]

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In Jerusalem, women barred from addressing gynecology conference

by News Sources 01.11.2012

Patrick Martin reports: The controversial exclusion of women from various settings in Israel because of pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders reached a new level this week with a major conference on gynecological advances that is permitting only males to address the audience. The conference on “Innovations in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Halacha [Jewish law]” is being held [...]

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Women fight religious segregation in Israel

by News Sources 01.04.2012
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Has Egypt’s revolution left women behind?

by News Sources 12.10.2011

Mara Revkin writes: Millions of women were among the 52 percent of eligible voters who cast ballots in Egypt’s parliamentary elections this week, but preliminary results suggest that Egypt’s first popularly elected legislature since the revolution might not include a single female face. Despite anecdotal reports of massive female turnout in Cairo and the other [...]

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Can Islamism and feminism mix?

by News Sources 10.26.2011

Monica Marks writes: In May, Tunisia passed an extremely progressive parity law, resembling France’s, which required all political parties to make women at least half of their candidates. As a long-repressed party, Ennahda enjoyed more credibility than other groups. It also had a greater number of female candidates to run than any other party, and [...]

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Yemeni women burn veils to protest regime

by News Sources 10.26.2011

CNN reports: Yemeni women defiantly burned their traditional veils Wednesday in protest of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. Thousands of women gathered in the capital, Sanaa, said witnesses. They carried banners that read: “Saleh the butcher is killing women and is proud of it” and “Women have no value in the [...]

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People & Power – Yemen: A tale of two protests

by News Sources 10.07.2011

A film broadcast by Al Jazeera in March about the Yemeni women’s rights activist Tawakkol Karman, who today has been named as one of three joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Liberian, Yemeni women win Nobel Peace Prize

by News Sources 10.07.2011

Reuters reports: Three women who have campaigned for rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. Another Liberian, Leymah Gbowee, who mobilized fellow women against the country’s civil war including by organizing a [...]

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