This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was a refreshing acknowledgment of courageous female leaders who are struggling for a peaceful way forward where women and men are provided equal opportunities to flourish in society.
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Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize, Sarah Wikenczy, Tawakkul Karman, women, Yemen
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In this interview, actress and playwright Alina Serban discusses the relationship between her work and her identity as a Roma woman.
Posted in: Europe, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: Alina Serban, Barvalipe, Rachel Hart, Roma, Romania, theater, video, women
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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Health facilities are mandated to provide care, especially to society’s most vulnerable people. When hospitals and clinics allow forced and coerced sterilizations, these facilities become places of abuse and torture.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bangladesh, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, disability rights, forced sterilization, France, HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, Lydia Guterman, Namibia, Peru, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, torture, United States, women, World Medical Association
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Sixteen years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, survivors of rape and torture continue to suffer lasting trauma. One local organization, an Open Society grantee, is working to ensure that these women receive reparations and to prevent future violence.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bosnia & Herzegovina, domestic violence, Marla Swanson, Mima Dahic, sexual violence, women
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New guidelines bring us one step closer to ending the forced sterilization of women. Now governments need to put the guidelines into practice, to ensure that health care providers protect the rights of all women.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, marginalized groups, North Carolina, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, Roma health, Tamar Ezer, women
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In Tunisia and Egypt, efforts must be exerted to ensure that women play a prominent role in democratic transition and their concerns are incorporated into reform and democratization plans.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Arab spring, Arab world, Egypt, Hanan Rabbani, Middle East, Tunisia, women, women's rights
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Agnes Osztolykán talks about her road to becoming the first and only Roma woman elected to parliament in Hungary, and what it's like sharing the benches with the racist Jobbik party.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Agnes Osztolykán, anti-Gypsyism, Bernard Rorke, Decade of Roma Inclusion, Hungary, Roma, women
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New demographics demand a new kind of workplace, say several Open Society grantees. Paid parental leave, paid sick leave, and flexible scheduling ensure that men and women alike can balance the needs of their jobs and families.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: 9to5, Center for American Progress, Emma Lozman, Equality and Opportunity, Equality and Opportunity Fund, Family Values at Work, FLSA, Human Rights Watch, labor, Luna Yasui, May Day, Shriver Report, women, workers rights
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In a country with the highest per-capita opiate consumption in the world, a pioneering clinic is helping women drug users reclaim their lives. Yet the program's survival is now under threat.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Middle East
Topics: Buprenorphine Babe, drug users, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, Iran, methadone, Methadone Man, opiate substitution treatment, Persepolis, public health, women