Tag: Women’s rights

Sea search continues after Spanish girl’s body found in bag

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MADRID — Spain is in shock after investigators combing the seabed near the Canary Islands found the body of one of two young sisters...

Protests as Austria grapples with violence against women

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VIENNA — The 35-year-old woman was working at a tobacco shop in Vienna when authorities say her ex-boyfriend doused her in gasoline and set...

Europe’s rights body fears virus measures hurting democracy

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ATHENS, Greece — Europe’s leading human rights body warned Tuesday that threats to democratic rights and personal freedoms have worsened during the pandemic, with...

Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo

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BENI, Congo — When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, a World Health Organization doctor...

Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo

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BENI, Congo — When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job...

Prominent female Saudi activist summoned for questioning

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been summoned for questioning by Saudi security three months after her...

Families, advocates mark day of awareness for Native victims

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From the nation’s capitol to Indigenous communities across the American Southwest, top government officials, family members and advocates are gathering Wednesday...

US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women’s rights

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WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that any gains in women's rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at...

FIFA bans Haiti women’s soccer official in sexual abuse case

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ZURICH — A soccer official in Haiti was banned for 10 years on Monday for her part in the systematic sexual abuse of women’s...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s July trial is postpone until the fall

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NEW YORK — The July trial for Ghislaine Maxwell on charges that she aided ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of teenage girls...