Advancing the Human Rights of Women & Girls
T Thousands of migrant women and girls are being silently smuggled into the UK for sex trafficking every year — the UK government needs to ensure its immigration laws aren’t… Read more »
A growing number of feminists have raised alarm about their Twitter accounts being blocked by the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and its president. Regardless of one’s perspectives on gender, women,… Read more »
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on country to implement strategies to prevent and prosecute femicides. With a population of more than 200 million, Brazil has only 74 shelters for… Read more »
Margaret Nelson is a 74-year-old woman who lives in a village in Suffolk. On Monday morning she was woken by a telephone call. It was an officer from Suffolk police…. Read more »
Toronto police sex crimes investigators say there are “no grounds” to lay criminal charges against a former RCMP doctor. That’s despite 30 women alleging they were sexually assaulted during mandatory… Read more »
Most of the victims were sold as sex slaves after false promises or kidnapping, Nigeria’s anti-trafficking agency said. Source: Nigeria finds more than 20,000 kidnapped girls in Mali | Nigeria… Read more »
Susan Bewley, Professor Emeritus Obstetrics & Women’s Health writes in the British Medical Journal: As working with people with gender dysphoria requires a different model of understanding, it remains legitimate… Read more »
As experts urge global warning over outbreak, women and girls in Beni report alleged exploitation. An unparalleled Ebola vaccination programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become engulfed… Read more »
Receiving a basic income had other great effects on the unemployed. Source: In Finland, giving people free money boosted happiness, not employment – Vox
A checkpoint along the Nepal-India border has become has one of the world’s busiest human trafficking routes. Now it is being policed by survivors. More than 23,000 women and girls… Read more »