Latest items for DTCP-PRACTICE-1
Feb. 20, 2025, 9:55 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"That morning, as she waited alone outside her employer’s shop to collect her salary while he ate his lunch, the Taliban’s 'morality police' were on patrol nearby. 'I had to wait because the workshop was an hour’s walk from home,' she says. 'The shop was near a main road. Unluckily, I was sitting right outside the door when the Taliban passed by and suddenly noticed me.' The Taliban officials roam the streets enforcing the Islamic fundamentalists’ strict interpretation of sharia religious law, such as bans on women speaking or showing their faces outside their homes, or travelling without a male relative. They can make decisions about people’s lives and liberties...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"That morning, as she waited alone outside her employer’s shop to collect her salary while he ate his lunch, the Taliban’s 'morality police' were on patrol nearby. 'I had to wait because the workshop was an hour’s walk from home,' she says. 'The shop was near a main road. Unluckily, I was sitting right outside the door when the Taliban passed by and suddenly noticed me.' The Taliban officials roam the streets enforcing the Islamic fundamentalists’ strict interpretation of sharia religious law, such as bans on women speaking or showing their faces outside their homes, or travelling without a male relative. They can make decisions about people’s lives and liberties...more
Feb. 11, 2025, 9:54 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women and children who are foreign nationals and accused of affiliation with ISIS have been subjected to rushed proceedings, lack of due process, and unfair convictions and sentences. Most of the foreign women and children held in Iraq belong to a group of more than 1,300 foreigners detained by Iraqi forces in August 2017 during the battle for the ISIS stronghold of Tal Afar in the northwest of Iraq. A security source told AFP news agency that the group was composed of 509 women and 813 children, though the overall number of foreign women and children in detention is believed to be higher based on information from sources close to...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Women and children who are foreign nationals and accused of affiliation with ISIS have been subjected to rushed proceedings, lack of due process, and unfair convictions and sentences. Most of the foreign women and children held in Iraq belong to a group of more than 1,300 foreigners detained by Iraqi forces in August 2017 during the battle for the ISIS stronghold of Tal Afar in the northwest of Iraq. A security source told AFP news agency that the group was composed of 509 women and 813 children, though the overall number of foreign women and children in detention is believed to be higher based on information from sources close to...more
Feb. 6, 2025, 7:27 p.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"However, the Committee also expresses concern about reports that police are not sensitized to human rights, including women’s rights, and that, particularly in rural areas where the Amazigh language is spoken, women are not aware of their rights because information is not as available in their language" (5).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"However, the Committee also expresses concern about reports that police are not sensitized to human rights, including women’s rights, and that, particularly in rural areas where the Amazigh language is spoken, women are not aware of their rights because information is not as available in their language" (5).
Feb. 5, 2025, 4:44 p.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"One of the defense lawyers said the girls reported that police had coerced them into signing statements they had not read. B told the Aswat Group for Sexual Minorities that she was made to sign five statements, none of which she was allowed to read, after she had been transferred to an adult prison. The statement taken by police, reviewed by Human Rights Watch, were identical, except for the names of the girls—both offering identical testimonies and confessing to 'sexual deviancy'" (5). "Moroccan authorities have routinely used a law designed to keep people from falsely claiming professional credentials to bring criminal charges against people trying to expose abuses. In one...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"One of the defense lawyers said the girls reported that police had coerced them into signing statements they had not read. B told the Aswat Group for Sexual Minorities that she was made to sign five statements, none of which she was allowed to read, after she had been transferred to an adult prison. The statement taken by police, reviewed by Human Rights Watch, were identical, except for the names of the girls—both offering identical testimonies and confessing to 'sexual deviancy'" (5). "Moroccan authorities have routinely used a law designed to keep people from falsely claiming professional credentials to bring criminal charges against people trying to expose abuses. In one...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 9:51 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"As in the rest of China, having too many children can lead to high fines. But unlike the rest of China, violating the state’s birth control policies is also one reason Uyghur people are being sent to detention camps. There are disturbing reports of sexual violence against Turkic Muslim women in detention. Human Rights Watch has reported on the separation of Uyghur children from their families, and how parents often lose contact with their children after having been sent to detention camps" (4).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"As in the rest of China, having too many children can lead to high fines. But unlike the rest of China, violating the state’s birth control policies is also one reason Uyghur people are being sent to detention camps. There are disturbing reports of sexual violence against Turkic Muslim women in detention. Human Rights Watch has reported on the separation of Uyghur children from their families, and how parents often lose contact with their children after having been sent to detention camps" (4).
Feb. 3, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
Countries: Hungary
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Mistrust of the authorities runs deep as a result of general discrimination faced by the Roma community, making Roma women and girls less likely to seek protection from the police when they experience domestic violence" (4).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Mistrust of the authorities runs deep as a result of general discrimination faced by the Roma community, making Roma women and girls less likely to seek protection from the police when they experience domestic violence" (4).
Feb. 3, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1)."After arriving in Maiduguri, soldiers took her and other women to a local hospital, where they were told to urinate in bottles, she said. A day later, at Giwa Barracks, uniformed people she took to be military doctors injected her and five others with something in their arms and their backsides" (Para 82)."Most of...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1)."After arriving in Maiduguri, soldiers took her and other women to a local hospital, where they were told to urinate in bottles, she said. A day later, at Giwa Barracks, uniformed people she took to be military doctors injected her and five others with something in their arms and their backsides" (Para 82)."Most of...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 2:10 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1)."After arriving in Maiduguri, soldiers took her and other women to a local hospital, where they were told to urinate in bottles, she said. A day later, at Giwa Barracks, uniformed people she took to be military doctors injected her and five others with something in their arms and their backsides" (Para 82)."Most of...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say" (Para 1)."After arriving in Maiduguri, soldiers took her and other women to a local hospital, where they were told to urinate in bottles, she said. A day later, at Giwa Barracks, uniformed people she took to be military doctors injected her and five others with something in their arms and their backsides" (Para 82)."Most of...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 2 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Amnesty said in a report, based on testimony from over 40 women inside Iran published ahead of the March 8 International Women's Day, that women were being targeted with 'widespread surveillance' in public spaces and 'mass police checks' targeting women drivers. It said pictures captured by surveillance cameras or reports from plain clothes agents using police app Nazer identify licence plates of vehicles with female drivers or passengers deemed to have violated the rule" (Para 4, 5). These measures reveal a systematic difference in how women are monitored, using surveillance cameras, plainclothes agents, and specialized apps to identify and punish them for what they are wearing (UST - CODERS COMMENT)....more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Amnesty said in a report, based on testimony from over 40 women inside Iran published ahead of the March 8 International Women's Day, that women were being targeted with 'widespread surveillance' in public spaces and 'mass police checks' targeting women drivers. It said pictures captured by surveillance cameras or reports from plain clothes agents using police app Nazer identify licence plates of vehicles with female drivers or passengers deemed to have violated the rule" (Para 4, 5). These measures reveal a systematic difference in how women are monitored, using surveillance cameras, plainclothes agents, and specialized apps to identify and punish them for what they are wearing (UST - CODERS COMMENT)....more
Feb. 3, 2025, 1:01 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In a related development, a senior official from the Taliban’s prison administration recently confirmed to Amu that at least 2,000 women are currently imprisoned in Taliban-run facilities. These women face charges ranging from fleeing their homes to theft and other alleged crimes. Over the past three years, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women activists across the country, particularly in Kabul. Some of these women have been held in Taliban prisons for up to a year. Tamanna Zaryab Paryani, one of the detained activists, has reported being stripped naked by Taliban members during her imprisonment. According to a joint report by The Guardian and Rukhshana Media, another female activist who...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In a related development, a senior official from the Taliban’s prison administration recently confirmed to Amu that at least 2,000 women are currently imprisoned in Taliban-run facilities. These women face charges ranging from fleeing their homes to theft and other alleged crimes. Over the past three years, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women activists across the country, particularly in Kabul. Some of these women have been held in Taliban prisons for up to a year. Tamanna Zaryab Paryani, one of the detained activists, has reported being stripped naked by Taliban members during her imprisonment. According to a joint report by The Guardian and Rukhshana Media, another female activist who...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 12:19 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The law came into place two years after nationwide protests rocked the country after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, jailed for not wearing her hijab correctly" (Para 13). Women in Iran could face the death penalty or up to 15 years in prison under new compulsory morality laws that impose severe penalties for defying the hijab rules. The laws, promoting "chastity and hijab," include fines, flogging, and prison sentences for those caught promoting nudity or improper dressing. Those propagating such behavior to foreign entities, including media or NGOs, could face up to 10 years in prison and significant fines (UST - CODERS COMMENT).more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The law came into place two years after nationwide protests rocked the country after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, jailed for not wearing her hijab correctly" (Para 13). Women in Iran could face the death penalty or up to 15 years in prison under new compulsory morality laws that impose severe penalties for defying the hijab rules. The laws, promoting "chastity and hijab," include fines, flogging, and prison sentences for those caught promoting nudity or improper dressing. Those propagating such behavior to foreign entities, including media or NGOs, could face up to 10 years in prison and significant fines (UST - CODERS COMMENT).more
Jan. 30, 2025, 7:52 p.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee remains concerned about: (a) The lack of independence, impartiality and gender-responsiveness of the justice system, which is reinforced by insufficient resource allocation, poor infrastructure and a lack of specialized gender-based violence units and personnel, including police officers, prosecutors and judges trained on gender issues, resulting in a dysfunctional and corrupt judiciary and an overall culture of impunity; (b) The lack of proper investigation, evidence collection and forensic facilities and capacities, which results in lengthy delays in legal proceedings and the revictimization of women; (c) Legal illiteracy among many women and girls and the persistent reluctance of women to file complaints owing to judicial gender bias and discriminatory attitudes...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee remains concerned about: (a) The lack of independence, impartiality and gender-responsiveness of the justice system, which is reinforced by insufficient resource allocation, poor infrastructure and a lack of specialized gender-based violence units and personnel, including police officers, prosecutors and judges trained on gender issues, resulting in a dysfunctional and corrupt judiciary and an overall culture of impunity; (b) The lack of proper investigation, evidence collection and forensic facilities and capacities, which results in lengthy delays in legal proceedings and the revictimization of women; (c) Legal illiteracy among many women and girls and the persistent reluctance of women to file complaints owing to judicial gender bias and discriminatory attitudes...more
Jan. 30, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
Countries: Mauritania
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"A draft law on gender-based violence, supported by the Ministry of Justice, has been twice rejected by parliament and remains pending at time of writing.... [T]he Penal Code maintains references to forms of punishments degrading treatment, such as death by stoning or flogging" (2).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"A draft law on gender-based violence, supported by the Ministry of Justice, has been twice rejected by parliament and remains pending at time of writing.... [T]he Penal Code maintains references to forms of punishments degrading treatment, such as death by stoning or flogging" (2).
Jan. 29, 2025, 7:35 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee notes with concern the need for regionalization of institutional care centres for women deprived of their liberty across the State party, which causes serious uprooting repercussions for women prisoners and their families, and the poor conditions for women in detention, with overcrowded facilities and limited access to sexual and reproductive health services, sanitary products and protection from sexual harassment" (12).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee notes with concern the need for regionalization of institutional care centres for women deprived of their liberty across the State party, which causes serious uprooting repercussions for women prisoners and their families, and the poor conditions for women in detention, with overcrowded facilities and limited access to sexual and reproductive health services, sanitary products and protection from sexual harassment" (12).
Jan. 28, 2025, 7:59 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Among the measures taken to address the need to guarantee access to justice for vulnerable women (CEDAW/C/CRI/CO/7, paragraph 8 (d)), the judiciary has strengthened coordination with organizations of women of African descent and has improved training for judicial and administrative officials regarding access to justice for migrant, refugee and indigenous populations. In that connection, the Office of the Public Prosecutor for Indigenous Affairs has conducted annual visits to the indigenous territories to ensure that cases involving indigenous women get priority, and has liaised with other offices to ensure that such cases are dealt with as effectively as possible, given the vulnerabilities of such women. In addition, efforts have been made...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Among the measures taken to address the need to guarantee access to justice for vulnerable women (CEDAW/C/CRI/CO/7, paragraph 8 (d)), the judiciary has strengthened coordination with organizations of women of African descent and has improved training for judicial and administrative officials regarding access to justice for migrant, refugee and indigenous populations. In that connection, the Office of the Public Prosecutor for Indigenous Affairs has conducted annual visits to the indigenous territories to ensure that cases involving indigenous women get priority, and has liaised with other offices to ensure that such cases are dealt with as effectively as possible, given the vulnerabilities of such women. In addition, efforts have been made...more
Jan. 27, 2025, 8:57 p.m.
Countries: North Korea
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Escaped North Koreans returned to Kim's clutches face a living hell of rape and torture-induced miscarriages, where newborns are murdered and the elderly beaten to death" (para 1). "She said most of the young women she was detained with in North Korea were pregnant. She said: 'The guards would attempt to induce miscarriages by making the women stay in a squatting position for prolonged periods or forcing them to carry heavy buckets of water. 'They would drag them to the hospital if that didn't work.' She continued: 'The worst was when North Korean security agents killed a newborn baby. Some women were captured when they were already in the final...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Escaped North Koreans returned to Kim's clutches face a living hell of rape and torture-induced miscarriages, where newborns are murdered and the elderly beaten to death" (para 1). "She said most of the young women she was detained with in North Korea were pregnant. She said: 'The guards would attempt to induce miscarriages by making the women stay in a squatting position for prolonged periods or forcing them to carry heavy buckets of water. 'They would drag them to the hospital if that didn't work.' She continued: 'The worst was when North Korean security agents killed a newborn baby. Some women were captured when they were already in the final...more
Jan. 27, 2025, 8:38 p.m.
Countries: North Korea
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"She said most of the young women she was detained with in North Korea were pregnant. She said: 'The guards would attempt to induce miscarriages by making the women stay in a squatting position for prolonged periods or forcing them to carry heavy buckets of water. 'They would drag them to the hospital if that didn't work.' She continued: 'The worst was when North Korean security agents killed a newborn baby. Some women were captured when they were already in the final month of pregnancy, their bellies heavily swollen. 'The authorities tried every method to induce a miscarriage, but if these failed, the women were forced to give birth. 'I...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"She said most of the young women she was detained with in North Korea were pregnant. She said: 'The guards would attempt to induce miscarriages by making the women stay in a squatting position for prolonged periods or forcing them to carry heavy buckets of water. 'They would drag them to the hospital if that didn't work.' She continued: 'The worst was when North Korean security agents killed a newborn baby. Some women were captured when they were already in the final month of pregnancy, their bellies heavily swollen. 'The authorities tried every method to induce a miscarriage, but if these failed, the women were forced to give birth. 'I...more
Jan. 24, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said" (para 1). "The Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced at the weekend that the group would begin enforcing its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, including reintroducing the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery. In an audio broadcast on the Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan last Saturday, Akhundzada said: 'We will flog the women … we will stone them to death in public [for adultery].' 'You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said" (para 1). "The Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced at the weekend that the group would begin enforcing its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, including reintroducing the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery. In an audio broadcast on the Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan last Saturday, Akhundzada said: 'We will flog the women … we will stone them to death in public [for adultery].' 'You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery...more
Jan. 24, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"As described below, Iraq’s current criminal legal system denies women equal protection of the law by failing to reflect the full scope of sexual and gender-based violence experienced by women in general and specifically by survivors of Daesh’s atrocities. The criminal legal system also places patriarchal and discriminatory procedural obstacles on women’s full equal protection of the law" (3). "As described below, Iraq’s current criminal legal system denies women the right to be free from discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence" (3). "As described below, Iraq’s current criminal legal system denies women’s access to justice and thereby hinders their enjoyment of all rights under CEDAW by failing to reflect the...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"As described below, Iraq’s current criminal legal system denies women equal protection of the law by failing to reflect the full scope of sexual and gender-based violence experienced by women in general and specifically by survivors of Daesh’s atrocities. The criminal legal system also places patriarchal and discriminatory procedural obstacles on women’s full equal protection of the law" (3). "As described below, Iraq’s current criminal legal system denies women the right to be free from discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence" (3). "As described below, Iraq’s current criminal legal system denies women’s access to justice and thereby hinders their enjoyment of all rights under CEDAW by failing to reflect the...more
Jan. 24, 2025, 10:38 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Protesters accused the government of largely neglecting sexual offenses that are evolving rapidly with the latest technologies. They argued that current laws are insufficient to address such crimes and called for a new legal system and stronger political will to combat them effectively" (para 2). "'Six years ago, hundreds of thousands of women gathered here in Hyehwa to condemn illegal filming and digital sex crimes and urged the government to come up with countermeasures, but they did not solve the problem,' said the organizers in a joint statement. 'Over time, the damage has gradually expanded. Nothing has changed and even the law and system are regressing'" (para 3). "'I came...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Protesters accused the government of largely neglecting sexual offenses that are evolving rapidly with the latest technologies. They argued that current laws are insufficient to address such crimes and called for a new legal system and stronger political will to combat them effectively" (para 2). "'Six years ago, hundreds of thousands of women gathered here in Hyehwa to condemn illegal filming and digital sex crimes and urged the government to come up with countermeasures, but they did not solve the problem,' said the organizers in a joint statement. 'Over time, the damage has gradually expanded. Nothing has changed and even the law and system are regressing'" (para 3). "'I came...more
Jan. 23, 2025, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"There is evidence the authorities are also capitulating to the anti-feminists' demands. When Darim reported her abuse to the police, they refused to take her case. They said because the finger-pinching gesture was taboo, it was 'logical' that she, as a feminist, had been attacked. 'I was astonished,' she said. 'Why would the authorities not protect me?'" (para 36—37).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"There is evidence the authorities are also capitulating to the anti-feminists' demands. When Darim reported her abuse to the police, they refused to take her case. They said because the finger-pinching gesture was taboo, it was 'logical' that she, as a feminist, had been attacked. 'I was astonished,' she said. 'Why would the authorities not protect me?'" (para 36—37).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"On 18 June, Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, backed calls to codify gender apartheid in Afghanistan as a crime under international law, defining what was happening as 'a profound rejection of the full humanity of women and girls' based on their gender alone. Even in those provinces where more sympathetic Taliban commanders looked the other way, allowing underground schools to continue and for women to work and move around the streets more easily, their freedom is still dependant on the decisions and whims of men in power" (para 28-29).
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"On 18 June, Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, backed calls to codify gender apartheid in Afghanistan as a crime under international law, defining what was happening as 'a profound rejection of the full humanity of women and girls' based on their gender alone. Even in those provinces where more sympathetic Taliban commanders looked the other way, allowing underground schools to continue and for women to work and move around the streets more easily, their freedom is still dependant on the decisions and whims of men in power" (para 28-29).
Jan. 16, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Public or social protest is a traditional right or mechanism to attract the attention of the authorities and solve demands. However, the Constitutional Court of Peru validated the intervention of the Armed Forces in the control of internal order without a declaration of emergency. There is no official data on the number of women defenders abused. Today, many women defenders are criminalized by the justice system, and defamed by the media and companies. Since 2003, 10 women have died from abuse of the public force; they have been attacked with hits to the breasts and buttocks, racist and sexist insults. Furthermore, they live in contexts of coercion and violence, where...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"Public or social protest is a traditional right or mechanism to attract the attention of the authorities and solve demands. However, the Constitutional Court of Peru validated the intervention of the Armed Forces in the control of internal order without a declaration of emergency. There is no official data on the number of women defenders abused. Today, many women defenders are criminalized by the justice system, and defamed by the media and companies. Since 2003, 10 women have died from abuse of the public force; they have been attacked with hits to the breasts and buttocks, racist and sexist insults. Furthermore, they live in contexts of coercion and violence, where...more
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In the period from 2017 to 2020, teams were deployed in the National Women’s Social Adaptation Penitentiary. with more than 40 registrations of births of children to mothers deprived of liberty; more than 200 consultations on registration problems; and the issuance of 2,804 birth certificates" (25). "As at November 2020, a total of 1,188 women were deprived of liberty (414 have been sentenced and 774 are facing charges), accounting for 4.64 per cent of the total number of persons deprived of liberty" (39). "In addition, the State implemented the Prison Decongestion Plan, under which from March to 30 October 2020 a total of 2,773 persons deprived of liberty were given...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In the period from 2017 to 2020, teams were deployed in the National Women’s Social Adaptation Penitentiary. with more than 40 registrations of births of children to mothers deprived of liberty; more than 200 consultations on registration problems; and the issuance of 2,804 birth certificates" (25). "As at November 2020, a total of 1,188 women were deprived of liberty (414 have been sentenced and 774 are facing charges), accounting for 4.64 per cent of the total number of persons deprived of liberty" (39). "In addition, the State implemented the Prison Decongestion Plan, under which from March to 30 October 2020 a total of 2,773 persons deprived of liberty were given...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 9:29 a.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iraq, if the police do enforce the law, action is usually taken against the women while the pimps and sex buyers are given impunity. Sometimes they even help the pimps and brothel owners to continue – while brutally abusing the women who end up in jail" (para 11).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iraq, if the police do enforce the law, action is usually taken against the women while the pimps and sex buyers are given impunity. Sometimes they even help the pimps and brothel owners to continue – while brutally abusing the women who end up in jail" (para 11).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:15 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In a statement urging Pakistan to uphold the rights of women and children, the group of nearly a dozen independent experts and Special Rapporteurs, maintained that Pakistan’s courts had enabled the perpetrators by accepting 'fraudulent evidence' from them, regarding the age of the victims and their willingness to marry and convert to Islam. They noted that the courts had also sometimes 'misused interpretations of religious law to justify victims remaining with their abusers'; the police had also failed victims’ families by refusing to register the abductions, or dismissing them as 'love marriages'" (para 5-6). "'Abductors force their victims to sign documents which falsely attest to their being of legal age...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In a statement urging Pakistan to uphold the rights of women and children, the group of nearly a dozen independent experts and Special Rapporteurs, maintained that Pakistan’s courts had enabled the perpetrators by accepting 'fraudulent evidence' from them, regarding the age of the victims and their willingness to marry and convert to Islam. They noted that the courts had also sometimes 'misused interpretations of religious law to justify victims remaining with their abusers'; the police had also failed victims’ families by refusing to register the abductions, or dismissing them as 'love marriages'" (para 5-6). "'Abductors force their victims to sign documents which falsely attest to their being of legal age...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"With regard to the adoption of special measures aimed at implementing the provisions of the Convention relating to the need to provide women with appropriate services during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period, besides the general rules set out in this report with reference to articles 11 and 12 of the Convention, additions have been made to the new Criminal Enforcement Code, which entered into force on 1 January 2019 and provides for special measures to benefit pregnant women (articles 45, 54 and 98)" (11). Table 8, titled "Data from the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic regarding the work of courts of the first instance...more
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"With regard to the adoption of special measures aimed at implementing the provisions of the Convention relating to the need to provide women with appropriate services during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period, besides the general rules set out in this report with reference to articles 11 and 12 of the Convention, additions have been made to the new Criminal Enforcement Code, which entered into force on 1 January 2019 and provides for special measures to benefit pregnant women (articles 45, 54 and 98)" (11). Table 8, titled "Data from the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic regarding the work of courts of the first instance...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:38 a.m.
Countries: South 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"`
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:58 a.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).
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:11 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