Women’s Rights News in Brief (2016/10/06)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/10/06
Istanbul summit to bring together women for justice
According to Daily Sabah, the Second International Women and Justice Summit will be hosted next month from November 25-26 with the theme of “Speak Up for Justice!” for women to discuss problems faced by women.
The summit will be hosted by NGOs including Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) and the Ministry of Family and Social Policies. It will “start on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.”
Two foci exist: “Women in Peace Processes” and “Syrian Refugee Women and Their Problems.” The hope is to raise awareness of women’s issues. There will be “workshops on cultural codes and manhood, women and peace, domestic violence and women refugees from Syria.”
Mike Pence’s Record On Women’s Rights Barely Came Up At The Debate & That’s A Problem
According to the Romper, During the first and only vice presidential debate of 2016, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine took the stage to discuss, and essentially defend, their respective presidential nominees and the important issues their campaigns plan to address
in the hopes of currying favour with potential and would-be voters come
November.
But while the debate was flooded with information, Pence’s record on women’s rights barely came up at the vice presidential debate — which is an utter failure, as over half of voters are women, an estimated 53 percent.
Pence’s political track record on reproductive rights and women’s health care is not only disturbing, it’s something that should have been highlighted on a national stage at great length, as Donald Trump has claimed Pence will be the “most powerful vice president in the history of the United States.”
Bid to ban abortion in Poland sparks heated Strasbourg debate
Radio Poland reports that Left-wing European Parliament deputies on Wednesday slammed a “medieval” bid to ban abortion in Poland, while conservative MEPs stressed the controversial measure is not a government initiative.
But in a move that surprised many, a Polish parliamentary committee on Wednesday rejected the bill, which has triggered street protests and fierce criticism on social media.
Malin Björk, a Swedish politician for the Left Party, said in the European Parliament debate in Strasbourg: “This new [proposed] law is a huge blow against women’s rights.”. Gianni Pittella, president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the second largest political group in the European Parliament, said: “The Polish proposal to toughen abortion [laws] goes against the EU’s values and threatens the right to health of women.”
But Jadwiga Wiśniewska, who hails from Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice party, told fellow MEPs: “You are trying to debate [a measure] in Poland that doesn’t exist yet and you are talking about something on which you don’t have the right to legislate.”
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