Women’s Rights News in Brief (2016/11/03)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/11/03
In Indonesia, men don mini-skirts to end violence against women
According to the Daily Mail, men in Indonesia have begun to put on skirts in protest against the persistent discrimination against women.
An individual, Syaldi Sahude, recollected the statistics that about 85% of Indonesian women have suffered from “violence at the hands of their partners” and remain in those relationships.
“There were women’s empowerment, legal aid and trauma programmes for survivors but the root cause of this is men,” said Sahude, who was working at a women’s rights group at the time.
Protecting women human rights defenders in Honduras
Global Report reports that there is a great need to defend women human rights defenders within Honduras, especially that women “shouldn’t have to risk your life to demand respect for your rights and the rights of others.”
“Hundreds of defenders” have face various threats, and even murdered, and without prosecution or investigation into the either. Honduran women human-rights defenders spoke out.
They sent a “message to United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst” in August, who put out a joint press release stating, “Honduras is one of the most hostile and dangerous countries in the world for human rights defenders.”
Sex workers’ rights in public discourse in Latin America
According to The Frisky, there is, and has been, a movement for the labour rights for sex workers in the world following the summer of 2015 “when Amnesty International released
a declaration identifying workers’ rights as human rights.”
Germany and New Zealand have legal sex work with concomitant reductions in violence against sex workers and sexually transmitted diseases of them compared to other nations that have, by default, made sex work illegal.
The dialogue has continued to increase through the 13th conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially with the push in that region for the rights of sex works.
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