Our weekly selection of 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
International Day of the Girl Child - special coverage
Marrying off little girls with dolls is playing with fire
Huffington Post
In the time it takes to read this column, around 70 girls below 18 years old will have been forced into marriage, often with dire consequences. We pause today to recognise the potential of girls and the impact that unleashing that potential may yield for all of us - but if we do not end child marriage, all of our hopes are undermined, write Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts, and Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Legal systems failing to prevent abuse of teen girls
TrustLaw, United States
Adolescent girls are not getting enough legal support to stop them falling prey to rights abuses, particularly sexual violence, according to legal advocacy group Equality Now.
Girls more active in Central American gang crime
TrustLaw, Colombia
Women and girls are playing more active and important roles in Central America’s gangs while suffering high levels of physical and sexual abuse, says a new report from peacebuilding groups.
Ethiopia's child brides: Changing the course
ICRW, Ethiopia
Almaz and Wube-Alem are two of more than 40 girls who have been saved from early marriage this year by adult “gatekeepers” who serve as liaisons between a joint International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and CARE-Ethiopia programme and the villages where it takes place.
AFRICA
Women entrepreneurs drive growth in Africa
International Herald Tribune
A wave of African entrepreneurs - many of them women - are harnessing the continent's business and brands as Africa enjoys its greatest economic success in generations.
AMERICAS
U.S. health law promises better contraceptive fit
Women's eNews, United States
The new health law's contraceptive mandate requires health insurers - or employers that provide their employees with health insurance - to include contraception in their health insurance plans.
ASIA
India's Gandhi calls for strict punishment after spate of rapes
TrustLaw, India
India's most powerful politician, Sonia Gandhi, has called for strict punishment for rapists following a spate of rapes in the country, including that of a girl who killed herself after she was forced to have sex with three men.
INTERVIEW-Women politicians can end India's gender abuses, says U.N.
TrustLaw, India
Giving women more voice in India's political arena will help end gender discrimination and crimes such as rape, child marriage and female foeticide, the head of the U.N. Women said, referring to gender violations occurring in the largely patriarchal country.
Thailand’s ‘invisible’ children struggle for education, papers
AlertNet, Thailand
Tens of thousands of people in Thailand's Chiang Rai province have no birth certificate and no legal status because of inadequate registration procedures for birth and citizenship. Officially, they don’t exist.
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