Massive protests took place in late October in Warsaw, Poland. The root of the anger stems from the country’s rightwing Law and Justice party’s decision to outlaw the majority of abortions.
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Imagine a world without women. None in your classes, home, or job. Every position filled by a man, with no thought of another option. While this sounds like a dystopian fiction, The New York Times explains this is what the women in Mexico challenged men to do on March 9.
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On March 1, Saudi Arabia’s Office of Public Prosecution announced its decision to move forward with their upcoming trials against women’s rights activists.
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On October 5, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced in Oslo, Norway. This year’s winners are Denis Mukwege of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nadia Murad of the Republic of Iraq.
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In Pakistan, where religion is inextricably tied to culture and tradition, “honor” killings carried out in the name of a family’s reputation have become normalized and are on the rise.
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Israeli media continues to paint the murders of Arab-Israeli women, dying at the hands of their own family members, as a uniquely “Arab” problem and fail to address the larger societal flaws at work.
Read MoreIndia’s history of honor killings exist in an already vast context of gender-based violence.
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Despite being considered the most progressive Arab nation in the Middle East, Jordan maintains one of the highest rates of honor crimes in the world.
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Early October the Indian Supreme Court ruled that sexual intercourse with a wife younger than 18 is rape with or without her consent, granted the wife file a complaint within a year.
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The Saudi Arabian government lifted the driving ban on women as of September 26, ending their reign as the only country to withhold this right.
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