Latest items for DTCP-PRACTICE-1
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women cannot access justice agencies and in most areas their petitions asking for justice cannot not be heard, which will increase the deepening violence against women. Domestic violence against women has escalated since the Islamic Republic was overthrown, according to many local and international reports, and women’s ability to access the court system has been completely wrecked" (para 6).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women cannot access justice agencies and in most areas their petitions asking for justice cannot not be heard, which will increase the deepening violence against women. Domestic violence against women has escalated since the Islamic Republic was overthrown, according to many local and international reports, and women’s ability to access the court system has been completely wrecked" (para 6).
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:24 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"One gauge of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is that there are credible reports that it is enforcing its supposedly strict moral code by arresting women and girls accused of advocating immodesty, and then sexually assaulting them" (para 1). "In a searing report about the rape of protesters by security forces, CNN recounted how a 20-year-old woman was arrested for supposedly leading protests and later was brought by the police to a hospital in Karaj, shaking violently, head shaven, her rectum hemorrhaging. The woman is now back in prison" (para 2). "Hadi Ghaemi of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a watchdog organization in New York, told me...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"One gauge of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is that there are credible reports that it is enforcing its supposedly strict moral code by arresting women and girls accused of advocating immodesty, and then sexually assaulting them" (para 1). "In a searing report about the rape of protesters by security forces, CNN recounted how a 20-year-old woman was arrested for supposedly leading protests and later was brought by the police to a hospital in Karaj, shaking violently, head shaven, her rectum hemorrhaging. The woman is now back in prison" (para 2). "Hadi Ghaemi of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a watchdog organization in New York, told me...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:04 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Masoud Darshti, the chief executive of Tehran and Suburbs Metro Operation Company, had announced the establishment of a chastity and hijab headquarters to issue reminders. He said his staff would be required to implement any police order but added that he had not yet personally received the instruction formally" (Para 6). "The judiciary has said it is willing to impose fines of 1m tomans (£190) on women taken to court for not wearing the hijab. Cars in which women are not wearing the hijab would be impounded for 20 days if the car driver has committed the offence twice" (Para 11). "[K]nowing heavy-handed enforcement measures were already unpopular before the...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Masoud Darshti, the chief executive of Tehran and Suburbs Metro Operation Company, had announced the establishment of a chastity and hijab headquarters to issue reminders. He said his staff would be required to implement any police order but added that he had not yet personally received the instruction formally" (Para 6). "The judiciary has said it is willing to impose fines of 1m tomans (£190) on women taken to court for not wearing the hijab. Cars in which women are not wearing the hijab would be impounded for 20 days if the car driver has committed the offence twice" (Para 11). "[K]nowing heavy-handed enforcement measures were already unpopular before the...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:03 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iran, the hijab law has typically been enforced by the so-called morality police. They would stop women in the streets, detain them and make them watch what they called a two-hour educational video. There have been reports of harassment and beatings in custody. Authorities have also fined women driving without headscarves, through traffic surveillance systems" (pARA 17). "Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iran, the hijab law has typically been enforced by the so-called morality police. They would stop women in the streets, detain them and make them watch what they called a two-hour educational video. There have been reports of harassment and beatings in custody. Authorities have also fined women driving without headscarves, through traffic surveillance systems" (pARA 17). "Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Nov. 16, 2024, 4:02 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"[S]ociety and government institutions often excuse and protect men from the consequences of their sexual violence. Women are blamed for being assaulted and are expected to sacrifice freedom and opportunity in exchange for personal safety. This culture contaminates public life — in movies and television; in bedrooms, where female sexual consent is unknown; in the locker room talk from which young boys learn the language of rape. India’s favorite profanities are about having sex with women without their consent" (Para 4). "[A] member of his party (Narendra Modi, PM India) explained that the accused, as upper-caste Brahmins, had “good” values and did not belong in prison. Men know these rules....more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"[S]ociety and government institutions often excuse and protect men from the consequences of their sexual violence. Women are blamed for being assaulted and are expected to sacrifice freedom and opportunity in exchange for personal safety. This culture contaminates public life — in movies and television; in bedrooms, where female sexual consent is unknown; in the locker room talk from which young boys learn the language of rape. India’s favorite profanities are about having sex with women without their consent" (Para 4). "[A] member of his party (Narendra Modi, PM India) explained that the accused, as upper-caste Brahmins, had “good” values and did not belong in prison. Men know these rules....more
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Brisa [victim of sexual violence], like 1 in 3 girls in Bolivia, is a survivor of sexual violence. Raped repeatedly for months by an adult family member when she was 15, Brisa endured three legal trials in Bolivia but did not get the justice she deserved. Instead, she faced inhuman treatment from the Bolivian courts. In 2010, Brisa brought her case in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which later concluded that the State had failed to properly investigate and prosecute her case, and in doing so, violated her internationally protected human rights" (para 3, 4).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Brisa [victim of sexual violence], like 1 in 3 girls in Bolivia, is a survivor of sexual violence. Raped repeatedly for months by an adult family member when she was 15, Brisa endured three legal trials in Bolivia but did not get the justice she deserved. Instead, she faced inhuman treatment from the Bolivian courts. In 2010, Brisa brought her case in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which later concluded that the State had failed to properly investigate and prosecute her case, and in doing so, violated her internationally protected human rights" (para 3, 4).
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:41 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense.” It also ordered Ruiz to pay more than $16,000 in reparations to the family of her attacker" (para 2). "Despite Ruiz [an assault survivor] telling police she had been raped, a forensic exam was never done, a crucial step in prosecuting sexual violence cases, Carrera [Ruiz's lawyer] said. Instead, an officer responded that she probably wanted to have sex with the man at first and then changed her mind, the...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense.” It also ordered Ruiz to pay more than $16,000 in reparations to the family of her attacker" (para 2). "Despite Ruiz [an assault survivor] telling police she had been raped, a forensic exam was never done, a crucial step in prosecuting sexual violence cases, Carrera [Ruiz's lawyer] said. Instead, an officer responded that she probably wanted to have sex with the man at first and then changed her mind, the...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:40 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IIP-LAW-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The recent Taliban ban on women working in international and national organisations and women moving about public spaces has also affected women being able to find employment" (para 4). "This [female struggle to find employment] follows Taliban decrees banning women from education at the secondary and university level and not allowing them to travel without a mahram (male close relative as chaperone). The Taliban also ordered the closure of all beauty salons, public bathrooms, and sports centres for women, important sectors of employment for women" (para 17).
Variables: IIP-LAW-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The recent Taliban ban on women working in international and national organisations and women moving about public spaces has also affected women being able to find employment" (para 4). "This [female struggle to find employment] follows Taliban decrees banning women from education at the secondary and university level and not allowing them to travel without a mahram (male close relative as chaperone). The Taliban also ordered the closure of all beauty salons, public bathrooms, and sports centres for women, important sectors of employment for women" (para 17).
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Just weeks before 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while in police custody after being arrested for failing to wear a hijab in public, an Iranian official announced the country’s law enforcement agencies would use facial recognition software to identify women who fail to follow the strict dress rule" (para 1). "Mounting evidence suggests that facial recognition software, used in conjunction with surveillance video cameras, is being used by Iranian authorities to identify, and prosecute, women who are choosing not to wear the hijab covering when they’re in public" (para 3). "In early September, The Guardian reported the Iranian government’s announcement of plans to use facial recognition technology on public transportation to...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Just weeks before 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while in police custody after being arrested for failing to wear a hijab in public, an Iranian official announced the country’s law enforcement agencies would use facial recognition software to identify women who fail to follow the strict dress rule" (para 1). "Mounting evidence suggests that facial recognition software, used in conjunction with surveillance video cameras, is being used by Iranian authorities to identify, and prosecute, women who are choosing not to wear the hijab covering when they’re in public" (para 3). "In early September, The Guardian reported the Iranian government’s announcement of plans to use facial recognition technology on public transportation to...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Two women have been arrested in Iran for not covering their hair in public after having a tub of yoghurt thrown over them" (para 1). '"Iran’s judiciary chief threatened to prosecute 'without mercy' women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei’s warning came on the heels of an interior ministry statement on Thursday that reinforced the government’s mandatory hijab law. 'Unveiling is tantamount to enmity with [our] values,' Ejei was quoted as saying by several news sites. Those 'who commit such anomalous acts will be punished' and would be 'prosecuted without mercy,' he said, without saying what the punishment would entail. Ejei, Iran’s chief...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Two women have been arrested in Iran for not covering their hair in public after having a tub of yoghurt thrown over them" (para 1). '"Iran’s judiciary chief threatened to prosecute 'without mercy' women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei’s warning came on the heels of an interior ministry statement on Thursday that reinforced the government’s mandatory hijab law. 'Unveiling is tantamount to enmity with [our] values,' Ejei was quoted as saying by several news sites. Those 'who commit such anomalous acts will be punished' and would be 'prosecuted without mercy,' he said, without saying what the punishment would entail. Ejei, Iran’s chief...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:55 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-LAW-2, DTCP-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-LAW-1
"For women, customary laws tend to prevail, with rape cases - where reported - handled by community elders. Impunity for perpetrators is also due to a weak legal system, consisting of a mixture of formal and customary laws"`
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-LAW-2, DTCP-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-LAW-1
"For women, customary laws tend to prevail, with rape cases - where reported - handled by community elders. Impunity for perpetrators is also due to a weak legal system, consisting of a mixture of formal and customary laws"`
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:54 p.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The ruling was a victory for women’s rights activists who had been campaigning for La China’s release, and fighting against the criminalisation of women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths in Argentina" (para 6). "But women such as La China are still being charged with homicide for undergoing what lawyers and supporters say are miscarriages, stillbirths, or other complications. The same study found at least 37 women had faced charges – either for homicide, or abandonment of a person – for possible obstetric events. The Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in Buenos Aires said poor, migrant women are more likely to face prosecution" (para 9).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The ruling was a victory for women’s rights activists who had been campaigning for La China’s release, and fighting against the criminalisation of women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths in Argentina" (para 6). "But women such as La China are still being charged with homicide for undergoing what lawyers and supporters say are miscarriages, stillbirths, or other complications. The same study found at least 37 women had faced charges – either for homicide, or abandonment of a person – for possible obstetric events. The Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in Buenos Aires said poor, migrant women are more likely to face prosecution" (para 9).
Nov. 12, 2024, 6:12 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: PRN-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
“While scrolling through Twitter in 2018, Youngmi came across footage of protests taking place in the streets of Seoul. In South Korea, where cases of femicide, revenge porn, and dating violence are widespread, a surge in spy-cam sex crimes, overwhelmingly committed by men, had mostly resulted in fines and suspended jail sentences, if they were prosecuted at all. That was not the case, however, for one 25-year-old woman who had taken a nonconsensual photo of a nude male model at art school and posted it online; she was sentenced to ten months in prison and court-ordered sexual-violence counseling. The demonstrations were a reaction to the blatant hypocrisy” (para 3).more
Variables: PRN-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
“While scrolling through Twitter in 2018, Youngmi came across footage of protests taking place in the streets of Seoul. In South Korea, where cases of femicide, revenge porn, and dating violence are widespread, a surge in spy-cam sex crimes, overwhelmingly committed by men, had mostly resulted in fines and suspended jail sentences, if they were prosecuted at all. That was not the case, however, for one 25-year-old woman who had taken a nonconsensual photo of a nude male model at art school and posted it online; she was sentenced to ten months in prison and court-ordered sexual-violence counseling. The demonstrations were a reaction to the blatant hypocrisy” (para 3).more
Nov. 1, 2024, 10:37 a.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, IIP-LAW-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Public Order Act of 1996 imposed conservative Islamic social codes which restricted women’s movement, work and study. Women could be imprisoned or flogged for seemingly trivial transgressions – such as wearing western-style jeans" (para 10).
Variables: RCDW-LAW-1, IIP-LAW-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Public Order Act of 1996 imposed conservative Islamic social codes which restricted women’s movement, work and study. Women could be imprisoned or flogged for seemingly trivial transgressions – such as wearing western-style jeans" (para 10).
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:21 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Masoud Darshti, the chief executive of Tehran and Suburbs Metro Operation Company, had announced the establishment of a chastity and hijab headquarters to issue reminders. He said his staff would be required to implement any police order but added that he had not yet personally received the instruction formally" (Para 6). "The judiciary has said it is willing to impose fines of 1m tomans (£190) on women taken to court for not wearing the hijab. Cars in which women are not wearing the hijab would be impounded for 20 days if the car driver has committed the offence twice" (Para 11). "[K]nowing heavy-handed enforcement measures were already unpopular before the...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Masoud Darshti, the chief executive of Tehran and Suburbs Metro Operation Company, had announced the establishment of a chastity and hijab headquarters to issue reminders. He said his staff would be required to implement any police order but added that he had not yet personally received the instruction formally" (Para 6). "The judiciary has said it is willing to impose fines of 1m tomans (£190) on women taken to court for not wearing the hijab. Cars in which women are not wearing the hijab would be impounded for 20 days if the car driver has committed the offence twice" (Para 11). "[K]nowing heavy-handed enforcement measures were already unpopular before the...more
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iran, the hijab law has typically been enforced by the so-called morality police. They would stop women in the streets, detain them and make them watch what they called a two-hour educational video. There have been reports of harassment and beatings in custody. Authorities have also fined women driving without headscarves, through traffic surveillance systems" (pARA 17). "Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iran, the hijab law has typically been enforced by the so-called morality police. They would stop women in the streets, detain them and make them watch what they called a two-hour educational video. There have been reports of harassment and beatings in custody. Authorities have also fined women driving without headscarves, through traffic surveillance systems" (pARA 17). "Women in Iran do not have the same legal protections as men, and are particularly vulnerable when it comes to issues such as marriage, child custody, divorce and even employment" (Para 23).
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"[S]ociety and government institutions often excuse and protect men from the consequences of their sexual violence. Women are blamed for being assaulted and are expected to sacrifice freedom and opportunity in exchange for personal safety. This culture contaminates public life — in movies and television; in bedrooms, where female sexual consent is unknown; in the locker room talk from which young boys learn the language of rape. India’s favorite profanities are about having sex with women without their consent" (Para 4). "[A] member of his party (Narendra Modi, PM India) explained that the accused, as upper-caste Brahmins, had “good” values and did not belong in prison. Men know these rules....more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"[S]ociety and government institutions often excuse and protect men from the consequences of their sexual violence. Women are blamed for being assaulted and are expected to sacrifice freedom and opportunity in exchange for personal safety. This culture contaminates public life — in movies and television; in bedrooms, where female sexual consent is unknown; in the locker room talk from which young boys learn the language of rape. India’s favorite profanities are about having sex with women without their consent" (Para 4). "[A] member of his party (Narendra Modi, PM India) explained that the accused, as upper-caste Brahmins, had “good” values and did not belong in prison. Men know these rules....more
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:10 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"One gauge of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is that there are credible reports that it is enforcing its supposedly strict moral code by arresting women and girls accused of advocating immodesty, and then sexually assaulting them" (para 1). "In a searing report about the rape of protesters by security forces, CNN recounted how a 20-year-old woman was arrested for supposedly leading protests and later was brought by the police to a hospital in Karaj, shaking violently, head shaven, her rectum hemorrhaging. The woman is now back in prison" (para 2). "Hadi Ghaemi of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a watchdog organization in New York, told me...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"One gauge of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is that there are credible reports that it is enforcing its supposedly strict moral code by arresting women and girls accused of advocating immodesty, and then sexually assaulting them" (para 1). "In a searing report about the rape of protesters by security forces, CNN recounted how a 20-year-old woman was arrested for supposedly leading protests and later was brought by the police to a hospital in Karaj, shaking violently, head shaven, her rectum hemorrhaging. The woman is now back in prison" (para 2). "Hadi Ghaemi of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a watchdog organization in New York, told me...more
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:08 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women cannot access justice agencies and in most areas their petitions asking for justice cannot not be heard, which will increase the deepening violence against women. Domestic violence against women has escalated since the Islamic Republic was overthrown, according to many local and international reports, and women’s ability to access the court system has been completely wrecked" (para 6).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women cannot access justice agencies and in most areas their petitions asking for justice cannot not be heard, which will increase the deepening violence against women. Domestic violence against women has escalated since the Islamic Republic was overthrown, according to many local and international reports, and women’s ability to access the court system has been completely wrecked" (para 6).
July 18, 2024, 6:38 p.m.
Countries: Guatemala
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Guatemala has made efforts to reduce overcrowding and promote non-custodial alternatives by processing the cases of 1,481 people in 2020 and by processing 345 applications for early release from women in 2021. Judges are responsible for granting such requests. With regard to ensuring the health, nutrition and hygiene of women detainees, the Government has developed health-care programmes that are being implemented by specialized personnel (gynaecologists and paediatricians) in the Santa Teresa Preventive Detention Centre for Women in zone 18 and in the Women’s Counselling Centre in Fraijanes. Medical and nursing personnel coordinate with local health centres in order to organize events and campaigns to support women and children" (34). "Guatemala...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Guatemala has made efforts to reduce overcrowding and promote non-custodial alternatives by processing the cases of 1,481 people in 2020 and by processing 345 applications for early release from women in 2021. Judges are responsible for granting such requests. With regard to ensuring the health, nutrition and hygiene of women detainees, the Government has developed health-care programmes that are being implemented by specialized personnel (gynaecologists and paediatricians) in the Santa Teresa Preventive Detention Centre for Women in zone 18 and in the Women’s Counselling Centre in Fraijanes. Medical and nursing personnel coordinate with local health centres in order to organize events and campaigns to support women and children" (34). "Guatemala...more
April 9, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Countries: Cuba
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-LAW-1
"There is a record of progress in essential areas: the Comprehensive Strategy against gender-based and intrafamily violence, the transversal treatment of gender-based violence in regulatory bodies such as the Family Code, the Penal Code and the Criminal Enforcement Law, based on the updating of the National Program for the Advancement of Women. However, they are instruments that are not yet sufficiently grounded in the institutional and political dynamics of the country. The Program will have been approved two years ago and the Strategy for just over one. In turn, they are legal mechanisms that function without a legal instrument that governs and organizes them. Nor does it organize the institutional...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1, DTCP-LAW-1
"There is a record of progress in essential areas: the Comprehensive Strategy against gender-based and intrafamily violence, the transversal treatment of gender-based violence in regulatory bodies such as the Family Code, the Penal Code and the Criminal Enforcement Law, based on the updating of the National Program for the Advancement of Women. However, they are instruments that are not yet sufficiently grounded in the institutional and political dynamics of the country. The Program will have been approved two years ago and the Strategy for just over one. In turn, they are legal mechanisms that function without a legal instrument that governs and organizes them. Nor does it organize the institutional...more
March 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
Countries: Gabon
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"For more serious cases, a detained woman is sent to a university hospital, accompanied by a prison officer. If a [female] prisoner does not have medical insurance, her family is responsible for the cost of health care" (27). "[T]here is a school for juvenile female prisoners, which at the end of the course can provide a diploma (junior secondary school diploma (BEPC), primary school certificate (CEP) or baccalaureate (BAC)) (28).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"For more serious cases, a detained woman is sent to a university hospital, accompanied by a prison officer. If a [female] prisoner does not have medical insurance, her family is responsible for the cost of health care" (27). "[T]here is a school for juvenile female prisoners, which at the end of the course can provide a diploma (junior secondary school diploma (BEPC), primary school certificate (CEP) or baccalaureate (BAC)) (28).
Feb. 20, 2024, 6:27 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women engaged in prostitution are subjected to violence by the police, including sexual violence, rape and harassment, and the perpetrators are not sanctioned" (9). "[M]easures necessary to prosecute and sanction sexual violence, rape and harassment committed by the police against women in prostitution [are not taken]" (9).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women engaged in prostitution are subjected to violence by the police, including sexual violence, rape and harassment, and the perpetrators are not sanctioned" (9). "[M]easures necessary to prosecute and sanction sexual violence, rape and harassment committed by the police against women in prostitution [are not taken]" (9).
Feb. 20, 2024, 9:55 a.m.
Countries: Qatar
Variables: LRW-LAW-2, DSFMF-PRACTICE-3, DSFMF-LAW-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The country’s penal code also criminalises sex outside marriage. Police often do not believe women who report sexual violence, says Rothna Begum, a senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, instead siding with men who claim it was consensual, which can lead to the survivor facing charges" (para 25).
Variables: LRW-LAW-2, DSFMF-PRACTICE-3, DSFMF-LAW-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The country’s penal code also criminalises sex outside marriage. Police often do not believe women who report sexual violence, says Rothna Begum, a senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, instead siding with men who claim it was consensual, which can lead to the survivor facing charges" (para 25).
Feb. 11, 2024, 3:55 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women accused of adultery have been publicly lashed by the Taliban as the Islamist group rolls out sharia law across Afghanistan. Ten men and nine women were each whipped 39 times in the city of Taloqan for alleged adultery and theft, a senior Taliban official said" (para 1-2). These quotes show that since men and women are both punished, double standards about fidelity and differential treatment under law may not be as pervasive for some things under the Taliban (Coder Comment - EV).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women accused of adultery have been publicly lashed by the Taliban as the Islamist group rolls out sharia law across Afghanistan. Ten men and nine women were each whipped 39 times in the city of Taloqan for alleged adultery and theft, a senior Taliban official said" (para 1-2). These quotes show that since men and women are both punished, double standards about fidelity and differential treatment under law may not be as pervasive for some things under the Taliban (Coder Comment - EV).
Jan. 22, 2024, 6:54 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The push comes amid new revelations about the extent of abuse of women, and the unwillingness of many prison officials, over decades and at all levels in the system, to address a crisis that has long been an open secret in government" (para 3). "'I was sentenced and put in prison for choices I made — I was not sent to prison to be raped and abused,' said Briane Moore, who was repeatedly assaulted by an official at a women’s prison in West Virginia who threatened to block a transfer to a facility closer to her family if she resisted"(para 5). "Among the findings made public: Bureau employees abused female...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The push comes amid new revelations about the extent of abuse of women, and the unwillingness of many prison officials, over decades and at all levels in the system, to address a crisis that has long been an open secret in government" (para 3). "'I was sentenced and put in prison for choices I made — I was not sent to prison to be raped and abused,' said Briane Moore, who was repeatedly assaulted by an official at a women’s prison in West Virginia who threatened to block a transfer to a facility closer to her family if she resisted"(para 5). "Among the findings made public: Bureau employees abused female...more
Jan. 22, 2024, 6:37 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women have stopped being issued driver's licenses and are ordered to cover their whole bodies in western city Herat, Afghanistan's third largest" (para 2). "The formerly liberal city is also the site of a Taliban prison where women are being held without trial simply for taking taxis without male companions" (para 3). "Other 'immoral offences' prompting women to be locked up include schoolgirls posing for photos with male classmates" (para 4). "Women were pictured behind bars without trial at Herat Central Jail by an ITV crew last week - with the guilty's 'immoral behaviour' including taking taxis without male supervision" (para 6). "But they have increasingly restricted the rights of...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women have stopped being issued driver's licenses and are ordered to cover their whole bodies in western city Herat, Afghanistan's third largest" (para 2). "The formerly liberal city is also the site of a Taliban prison where women are being held without trial simply for taking taxis without male companions" (para 3). "Other 'immoral offences' prompting women to be locked up include schoolgirls posing for photos with male classmates" (para 4). "Women were pictured behind bars without trial at Herat Central Jail by an ITV crew last week - with the guilty's 'immoral behaviour' including taking taxis without male supervision" (para 6). "But they have increasingly restricted the rights of...more
Jan. 21, 2024, 10:43 a.m.
Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"He also removed some of the legal enforcements of the dreaded guardianship system, which consigned every Saudi woman to the near total control of a male family member" (para 6). "The recent reforms mean that if a woman has been born or married into a clan of freethinking men willing to let her do things, the state will not interfere. But for the many Saudi women who lack a benevolent male guardian, there is no remedy. If, for example, a woman’s husband or father doesn’t think she should get her driving license, she is still compelled to obey his dictate. In other words, according to Saudi legal experts I consulted,...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"He also removed some of the legal enforcements of the dreaded guardianship system, which consigned every Saudi woman to the near total control of a male family member" (para 6). "The recent reforms mean that if a woman has been born or married into a clan of freethinking men willing to let her do things, the state will not interfere. But for the many Saudi women who lack a benevolent male guardian, there is no remedy. If, for example, a woman’s husband or father doesn’t think she should get her driving license, she is still compelled to obey his dictate. In other words, according to Saudi legal experts I consulted,...more
Jan. 21, 2024, 10:39 a.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Earlier this month, a few major news outlets, including The New York Times and Time magazine, erroneously reported that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran had abolished the morality police—the infamous government body in Iran designed to harass and control women for such crimes as wearing an improper hijab or walking in public with a male friend. But it seems the news of its death has been greatly exaggerated" (para 1). "On Dec 5, an entire amusement park was shut down when a female employee showed up to work without a headscarf. In another incident, a member of parliament warned of new methods, such as freezing bank accounts...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Earlier this month, a few major news outlets, including The New York Times and Time magazine, erroneously reported that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran had abolished the morality police—the infamous government body in Iran designed to harass and control women for such crimes as wearing an improper hijab or walking in public with a male friend. But it seems the news of its death has been greatly exaggerated" (para 1). "On Dec 5, an entire amusement park was shut down when a female employee showed up to work without a headscarf. In another incident, a member of parliament warned of new methods, such as freezing bank accounts...more
Jan. 21, 2024, 10:36 a.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"An Iranian woman has been jailed for ten years for 'encouraging prostitution' after removing her headscarf at a protest" (para 1) "The court found her guilty of 'encouraging corruption and prostitution' as well as 'assembly and collusion'" (para 3) "Protests broke out in Iran on September 16 following the fatal beating of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by morality police for wearing her hijab 'improperly'" (para 8)
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"An Iranian woman has been jailed for ten years for 'encouraging prostitution' after removing her headscarf at a protest" (para 1) "The court found her guilty of 'encouraging corruption and prostitution' as well as 'assembly and collusion'" (para 3) "Protests broke out in Iran on September 16 following the fatal beating of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by morality police for wearing her hijab 'improperly'" (para 8)