Women’s Rights News in Brief (2016/10/28)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/10/28
Worldwide war against women
According to The Village Voice, there is a war against women around the world. The article notes that “a conservative Muslim president announces that women who don’t stay home and bear children are ‘deficient.’”
Russia’s Duma represents a campaign to decriminalize domestic violence, where the majority of victims are women. India has an editor of a liberal investigative magazine put his hand up a cornered employee’s skirt. The incident, or crime, is dismissed as “drunken banter”.
Within the Philippines, “the new president jokes about” missing the opportunity to
lead a gang-rape, which reflects consistencies among individuals in power, or men in stations of authority in the world.
Canadian Rights Record for Women’s Equality record under review
Net News Ledger reports that the Canadian rights record for women’s equality is under review at the United Nations in Geneva with the 65th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
The new federal government, with the self-identified feminist Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and son of the late ex-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, calls for a “nation-to-nation relationship, and acknowledges that ‘poverty is sexist’.”
The Net News Ledger states that “Canada needs a comprehensive and holistic national gender equality plan that addresses all forms of discrimination against women and girls. It must take an intersectional approach, recognizing that particular groups of women and girls—including First Nations, Inuit, Métis, racialized, disabled, refugee, immigrant, transgender, lesbian, bisexual and single parent women and girls—experience particular forms of discrimination and deepened disadvantage.”
UN recognizes Afghan’s women’s ability to fight extremism
UN News Office notes that following an Afghan civil society meeting with representatives meeting in Kabul that women’s rights are key to the overall strategies to combat violent extremism.
The meeting was a part of a larger day entitled Global Open Day to assist women. It was themed on peace, security, and women. The UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, Pernille Kardel, and the Country Representative for the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Elzira Sagynbaeva took part.
Kardel said, “In Afghanistan, ideologies imposing discriminatory belief systems continue to deprive women and girls of basic human rights such as freedom of movement and access to education and health.”
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