by Elizabeth Schroeder | Oct 24, 2022 | All, Disability, Healthcare, Human Rights, Women
A note on language: I use both ‘identify-first’ (disabled person) and ‘people-first’ (person with a disability) language throughout this article because English-speaking disability advocates use (and request that other people use) one or both of these. People with...
by Elizabeth Duncan | Oct 12, 2022 | Africa, All, Environment, Human Rights, Women
Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_watering_crops,_Tanzania.jpg https://www.usaid.gov/tanzania/our-work Land is often the most important asset for households and individuals in the developing world, the majority of whom rely on...
by Andrea Lorch | Oct 10, 2022 | All, CEDAW, Comparative Law, Human Rights, Iran, Protests, Women
Over the last three weeks, protests have erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini. Mahsa (Jina) Amini was a 22-year-old woman from Kurdistan who was arrested by the morality police, a special sect of law enforcement, in Tehran for “immodest...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Feb 16, 2022 | All, CEDAW, Comparative Law, Europe, European Union, Human Rights, Middle East & North Africa, Public International Law, United Nations, Women
Overview Violence against women is a world-wide problem. It is not regional and it does not discriminate. It affects women of all cultures and religions. Even though statistics might be lower in Europe and The Americas, it is mostly due to them being more developed...
by Caroline Dumoulin | Jul 12, 2021 | All, Asia, Comparative Law, Covid-19, Human Rights, Labor Law, Middle East & North Africa, Migration Law, Uncategorized
There are an estimated 164 million migrant workers in the world today, approximately 8.5 million of them women, with roughly 19 percent of these women working in the Arab region. Despite these high numbers, due to the private nature of the work causing poor...
