Our selection of this week's stories on women's rights from TrustLaw and other media
LONDON (TrustLaw) – Here is our selection of this week’s stories on women's rights from TrustLaw and other media.
GLOBAL
U.N. Women warns of funding gaps ahead
TrustLaw, Istanbul
U.N. Women, slammed by some activists for not making enough progress to get women's issues on the global agenda since its 2011 launch, has warned it may face a shortage of funds for the second year in a row.
Lesbians strive to end economic, social discrimination
TrustLaw, Istanbul
Discrimination hurts many women economically and socially, but it has an even greater and sometimes dangerous impact on lesbians, according to a group of women working on lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights in dozens of countries.
AFRICA
Time to educate Cameroonian men about women's rights
TrustLaw, Dakar
Men have to be involved in efforts geared at ending violence against women in Cameroon, the head of an association working with males to end violent and aggressive behavior against women, has said.
Nigeria: over 75 percent Kwara women shun family planning – survey
allAfrica, Nigeria
The Baseline Household Survey conducted by the Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative has revealed that more than 75 percent of women in Kwara State don't use modern contraceptives for family planning. Women said the reasons included the need to have more children, lack of spouse's permission, fear of side-effects and religious opposition to the use of the contraceptive.
AMERICAS
Honduras poised to criminalise women using emergency contraceptive pill - rights group
TrustLaw, Bogota
Honduras is poised to pass a law making it a crime for women to use the emergency contraceptive pill and for doctors to prescribe it, a local women’s rights group has said.
U.S. Marines moving women toward the front lines
The New York Times, U.S.
The Marine Corps, the most male of the U.S. armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women.
ASIA
Undernourished and anaemic - the plight of India's teen girls
TrustLaw, New Delhi
The United Nations’ latest report on the state of the world's 1.2 billion adolescents gives food for thought, especially on the plight of India's girls aged between 10 and 19.
Women-led households hit by war, floods in Pakistan’s Swat region
IRIN News, Pakistan
According to a study commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the problems faced by Pakistani women in post-conflict Swat have been poorly understood and addressed.
Muslim women in India seek gender equality in marriage
The New York Times, U.S.
For more than a decade, Muslim women’s organisations in India have been fighting for changes in the body of Islamic law that governs marriage, divorce and the property rights of women. But, as the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board held its annual convention in Mumbai last week, the battle lines had never been so starkly drawn.
EUROPE
For women at Games, messages are mixed
The New York Times, U.S.
As the London Olympic Games approach, all sorts of mixed messages are being sent about women - some by women themselves - having more to do with what they will wear and how they will behave and how they should be controlled than about how they will perform in competition.
MIDDLE EAST
The real roots of sexism in the Middle East (it's not Islam, race, or 'hate')
The Atlantic, U.S.
Picture a woman in the Middle East, and probably the first thing that comes into your mind will be the hijab. You might not even envision a face, just the black shroud of the burqa or the niqab. Women's rights in the mostly Arab countries of the region are among the worst in the world, but it's more than that.
Muslim women fear post-revolution fundamentalist regimes
TrustLaw, Istanbul
Women’s rights are in flux and under pressure in many Muslim-majority countries at the moment, but things could get much worse if regimes dominated by Islamic fundamentalists wind up replacing dictatorships toppled by revolutions, according to Muslim women’s rights leaders from Syria, Tunisia and Egypt.
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