gender-based violence

A health care worker in Pakistan for Marie Stopes International, which provides contraception services in 37 countries worldwide. Pakistan has one of the lowest overall health care rankings in South Asia, impeding the lives of women and girls.
South Asia, a vast region stretching from Bangladesh to Afghanistan, has produced and exported respected medical professionals, research findings and innovations with universal reach. The poor record in domestic health care in almost every one of the seven countries in the region is a different story.

ISIS fighters entering Raqqa in 2013. In 2014, the jihadists committed genocide, including rape, against the Yazidi population in their ancestral home in northern Iraq. The authors list six explicit ways that rape as a weapon of war can be tackled in work on peace and stability. CREATIVE COMMONS

Victoria Villanueva helped found an organization called Manuela Ramos, in Peru in 1978, to lobby to reduce violence against women in the country. At age 83, Villanueva, who was in New York recently, is not slowing down in her work as street protests in Peru denouncing violence against women rise.

Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, has sent a directive to higher-education institutions in his country to ban the teaching of gender studies. The reaction from many circles opposing the rule has been swift. 
In the doldrums of a European summer, when many universities are mostly closed or short-staffed, the populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent a directive to higher-education institutions on Aug. 9 forbidding the teaching of gender studies.

Amina Mohamed, right, the UN deputy secretary-general, and Ekhlas Bajoo, a Yazidi survivor and activist, Nov. 7, 2017. Not one ISIS fighter has been prosecuted for genocide despite the range of crimes they committed in that realm. MARK GARTEN/UN PHOTO 

Justine Masika Bihamba, who runs a women’s rights group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, told the UN Security Council on July 26, 2018, that the UN peacekeeping mission there can no longer afford to pay for human-rights experts on the ground, a result of budget cuts recently approved by the UN General Assembly. JOE PENNEY

Schoolgirls in Afghanistan who are determined to get an education, despite the tremendous obstacles confronting them, including the Taliban. The WomanStats Project is a wide-ranging database that can shed light on such topics as education, covering the field of women, peace and security in legal, physical, economic and social spheres in a given country. JOHANNA HIGGS

Displaced Rohingya women, 2017, in Bangladesh. The UN is struggling to help resolve the crisis of millions of Rohingya who escaped a pogrom in Myanmar but face enormous risks in returning home. TASNIM NEWS AGENCY
Among refugee advocates there  has been a growing concern that recent agreements among regional governments and the United Nations on a framework for mitigating the Rohingya crisis could prompt at least some of the million-plus people who have fled the deadly military pogrom in Myanmar to consider risking a return to try to rebuild their lives.

How a group of women affected by domestic violence and displaced by Colombia's conflict united to build their own cityThe post Colombia’s City of Women appeared first on Positive News.