Latest items for NGOFW-DATA-1
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Australian Femicide Watch… was founded by the journalist and researcher Sherele Moody" (para 2).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Australian Femicide Watch… was founded by the journalist and researcher Sherele Moody" (para 2).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:28 p.m.
Countries: France
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Blandine Deverlanges [is a] teacher and founder of the local feminist group Amazons of Avignon" (para 26).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Blandine Deverlanges [is a] teacher and founder of the local feminist group Amazons of Avignon" (para 26).
Jan. 18, 2025, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Lebanon
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In March 2024, Lebanon’s 'reform MPs,' a group of legislators who were elected in 2022 from outside the country’s traditional sectarian system, proposed a new law on violence against women (VAW). They drafted the bill in collaboration with local feminist NGOs and based it on international legal instruments and conventions" (para 1). "Two of the most important such NGOs are ABAAD and Kafa, whose members have conducted much of the legwork that went into formulating new legal frameworks, publicizing women’s issues, and supporting the families of victims during legal proceedings. They also work with regional and international organizations in collecting data and issuing reports and studies about the lives of...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In March 2024, Lebanon’s 'reform MPs,' a group of legislators who were elected in 2022 from outside the country’s traditional sectarian system, proposed a new law on violence against women (VAW). They drafted the bill in collaboration with local feminist NGOs and based it on international legal instruments and conventions" (para 1). "Two of the most important such NGOs are ABAAD and Kafa, whose members have conducted much of the legwork that went into formulating new legal frameworks, publicizing women’s issues, and supporting the families of victims during legal proceedings. They also work with regional and international organizations in collecting data and issuing reports and studies about the lives of...more
Jan. 16, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: LBHO-PRACTICE-3, NGOFW-DATA-1
"Currently, the NGOs CMP Flora Tristán, ACS Calandria, Movimiento Manuela Ramos and the Red Nacional de Mujeres Autoridades (RENAMA) are promoting Bill 673, 'Law to prevent, punish and eradicate political harassment against women'" (6).
Variables: LBHO-PRACTICE-3, NGOFW-DATA-1
"Currently, the NGOs CMP Flora Tristán, ACS Calandria, Movimiento Manuela Ramos and the Red Nacional de Mujeres Autoridades (RENAMA) are promoting Bill 673, 'Law to prevent, punish and eradicate political harassment against women'" (6).
Jan. 16, 2025, 12:15 p.m.
Countries: Kenya
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"A petition calling for lowered prices – launched by Dial a pad, an NGO promoting access to feminine hygiene products in Africa – has more than 4,000 signatures" (para 13).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"A petition calling for lowered prices – launched by Dial a pad, an NGO promoting access to feminine hygiene products in Africa – has more than 4,000 signatures" (para 13).
Jan. 16, 2025, 11:19 a.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"'Unless we are effectively fighting the patriarchy, we will never defeat the military,' said Ms. Ying Lao, who runs the Salween Institute for Public Policy, a Myanmar-focused think tank" (para 5). "But that is an incorrect appraisal of Ms. Ying Lao’s efforts, said Debbie Stothard, director of Altsean-Burma, a regional rights group supporting women’s empowerment in Myanmar" (para 27).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"'Unless we are effectively fighting the patriarchy, we will never defeat the military,' said Ms. Ying Lao, who runs the Salween Institute for Public Policy, a Myanmar-focused think tank" (para 5). "But that is an incorrect appraisal of Ms. Ying Lao’s efforts, said Debbie Stothard, director of Altsean-Burma, a regional rights group supporting women’s empowerment in Myanmar" (para 27).
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In 2018, in a strategic partnership between the National Institute for Women, the Judicial School and the organization Ayuda en Acción, a gender and human rights course was held for judges, magistrates and prosecutors of the Public Prosecution Service" (6). "The steps to prevent gender-based violence include the implementation in 2018 by the judiciary of the campaign entitled 'Don’t Be Silent, Report it, Justice is on your Side, Use it, it is your Right', financed by Euro Justicia and aimed at women in all stages of life, showing the forms of violence of which women and girls could be victims and providing the telephone numbers or locations to file reports"...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In 2018, in a strategic partnership between the National Institute for Women, the Judicial School and the organization Ayuda en Acción, a gender and human rights course was held for judges, magistrates and prosecutors of the Public Prosecution Service" (6). "The steps to prevent gender-based violence include the implementation in 2018 by the judiciary of the campaign entitled 'Don’t Be Silent, Report it, Justice is on your Side, Use it, it is your Right', financed by Euro Justicia and aimed at women in all stages of life, showing the forms of violence of which women and girls could be victims and providing the telephone numbers or locations to file reports"...more
Jan. 15, 2025, 9:58 p.m.
Countries: Benin
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Raïmath Moriba, president of Femmes engagées pour le développement, a non-governmental organisation, agrees that only people in large towns and cities know about the legal change. 'Clandestine abortions are still happening,' she says. In areas where news of the law has not filtered through, 'women don’t know about laws like this that have been voted in to protect them. There is still a lot of work to do'" (para 12).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Raïmath Moriba, president of Femmes engagées pour le développement, a non-governmental organisation, agrees that only people in large towns and cities know about the legal change. 'Clandestine abortions are still happening,' she says. In areas where news of the law has not filtered through, 'women don’t know about laws like this that have been voted in to protect them. There is still a lot of work to do'" (para 12).
Jan. 15, 2025, 9:50 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Nyekanyeka, 45, coordinates the Religious Leaders Network for Choice, a group formed in 2019 with about 15 members and which now numbers more than 1,000 Christians and Muslims. They first came together after attending training sessions run by the Coalition for Prevention of Unsafe Abortion, which educates the public on unsafe abortion and builds grassroots momentum for law reform. The network conducts research into the intersection of religion and sexual and reproductive health and rights; and advocates for access to safe abortion to policymakers, lawyers, judges, the media and MPs" (para 4-5). "Research by the Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for sexual and reproductive health... estimated that 141,000 women in Malawi...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Nyekanyeka, 45, coordinates the Religious Leaders Network for Choice, a group formed in 2019 with about 15 members and which now numbers more than 1,000 Christians and Muslims. They first came together after attending training sessions run by the Coalition for Prevention of Unsafe Abortion, which educates the public on unsafe abortion and builds grassroots momentum for law reform. The network conducts research into the intersection of religion and sexual and reproductive health and rights; and advocates for access to safe abortion to policymakers, lawyers, judges, the media and MPs" (para 4-5). "Research by the Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for sexual and reproductive health... estimated that 141,000 women in Malawi...more
Jan. 15, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Hungary
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"If we find signs of abuse, exploitation, or we are victims ourselves, one of the best available, free and anonymous phone service is OKIT (“Országos Kríziskezelő és Információs Telefonszolgálat”)" (par. 25).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"If we find signs of abuse, exploitation, or we are victims ourselves, one of the best available, free and anonymous phone service is OKIT (“Országos Kríziskezelő és Információs Telefonszolgálat”)" (par. 25).
Jan. 15, 2025, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"The report is from WeCount, a research effort of the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion rights. It collected abortion counts from 83 percent of clinics, hospitals and telehealth providers in the country. For the places that did not provide data, the group estimated the changes based on historical data and the trends for nearby clinics" (par. 7). "More patients at the clinic than before are in their second trimester because of the challenges of getting to a clinic. A majority rely on funds from nonprofits that help arrange and pay for travel" (par. 24).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"The report is from WeCount, a research effort of the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion rights. It collected abortion counts from 83 percent of clinics, hospitals and telehealth providers in the country. For the places that did not provide data, the group estimated the changes based on historical data and the trends for nearby clinics" (par. 7). "More patients at the clinic than before are in their second trimester because of the challenges of getting to a clinic. A majority rely on funds from nonprofits that help arrange and pay for travel" (par. 24).
Jan. 10, 2025, 7 p.m.
Countries: New Zealand
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Debbie Baker, the manager of Streetreach, a group supporting street sex workers, reported that she knew of at least 12 girls between 11 and 15 'out there selling themselves for sex' in the central city" (para 10). "While there are services for domestic violence and family violence, there are no services for coloured women and children who are being exploited within the sex trade, who are living with vulnerabilities that remove their choice and make them vulnerable to exploitation. This is why Wahine Toa Rising was born. We saw an urgent need to have a space where vulnerable women and children, especially those of colour, could be heard, seen, valued...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Debbie Baker, the manager of Streetreach, a group supporting street sex workers, reported that she knew of at least 12 girls between 11 and 15 'out there selling themselves for sex' in the central city" (para 10). "While there are services for domestic violence and family violence, there are no services for coloured women and children who are being exploited within the sex trade, who are living with vulnerabilities that remove their choice and make them vulnerable to exploitation. This is why Wahine Toa Rising was born. We saw an urgent need to have a space where vulnerable women and children, especially those of colour, could be heard, seen, valued...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 6:51 p.m.
Countries: United Arab Emirates
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Thomas said he began trying to rescue other women trapped in Dubai. He started a campaign called Send Them Home, raising money to cover victims’ escape and travel costs. Over several months, Thomas said, he helped rescue eight other women who said they’d been held against their will by Gold or other traffickers operating in the UAE" (para 36).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Thomas said he began trying to rescue other women trapped in Dubai. He started a campaign called Send Them Home, raising money to cover victims’ escape and travel costs. Over several months, Thomas said, he helped rescue eight other women who said they’d been held against their will by Gold or other traffickers operating in the UAE" (para 36).
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:45 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In 2011, realizing that legal rights for home-based workers would not be enacted if home-based workers remained invisible, activists and trade unionists in Pakistan started establishing contact with home-based workers by going house to house and asking workers to tell them about other home-based workers. Activists and unionists decided to establish cooperatives where home-based workers could freely discuss their issues, work together, develop their skills and advocate for their rights. The workers had a broad range of concerns beyond a minimum wage, social security and their legal recognition as workers. They also discussed everyday concerns, including transport, electricity, housing security and violence against women. The home-based workers started approaching Labour...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In 2011, realizing that legal rights for home-based workers would not be enacted if home-based workers remained invisible, activists and trade unionists in Pakistan started establishing contact with home-based workers by going house to house and asking workers to tell them about other home-based workers. Activists and unionists decided to establish cooperatives where home-based workers could freely discuss their issues, work together, develop their skills and advocate for their rights. The workers had a broad range of concerns beyond a minimum wage, social security and their legal recognition as workers. They also discussed everyday concerns, including transport, electricity, housing security and violence against women. The home-based workers started approaching Labour...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:32 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"So far, the project [Titukulane] has established 33 women cooperatives in all lakeshore districts in the country" (par. 27).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"So far, the project [Titukulane] has established 33 women cooperatives in all lakeshore districts in the country" (par. 27).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:09 p.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In order to strengthen the capacity of the responsible State bodies and other law enforcement authorities through a partnership between the responsible State bodies and the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan, along with the League of Defenders of the Rights of the Child, which is a non-governmental foundation, and with the support of the United Nations Development Programme, training of their representatives as trainers was carried out, using a specially developed training manual, for authorized bodies and representatives of children’s and women’s organizations in the framework of the project entitled 'Support for the implementation of the Act to Prevent Religious Marriages Involving Minors'. Subsequently, the trained trainers trained specialists...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In order to strengthen the capacity of the responsible State bodies and other law enforcement authorities through a partnership between the responsible State bodies and the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan, along with the League of Defenders of the Rights of the Child, which is a non-governmental foundation, and with the support of the United Nations Development Programme, training of their representatives as trainers was carried out, using a specially developed training manual, for authorized bodies and representatives of children’s and women’s organizations in the framework of the project entitled 'Support for the implementation of the Act to Prevent Religious Marriages Involving Minors'. Subsequently, the trained trainers trained specialists...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:38 a.m.
Countries: South Sudan
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"For almost 20 years, Equality Now supported women’s rights organizations under the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition to advocate for the universal ratification of the Maputo Protocol across Africa. SOAWR member Steward Women and the Coalition of Civil Society on the Ratification of Maputo Protocol in South Sudan have steered the national campaign in South Sudan since 2012. Initial advocacy efforts Equality Now instigated in 2012 led to the South Sudan parliament passing a motion for the ratification of the Maputo Protocol in 2014" (para 6-7).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"For almost 20 years, Equality Now supported women’s rights organizations under the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition to advocate for the universal ratification of the Maputo Protocol across Africa. SOAWR member Steward Women and the Coalition of Civil Society on the Ratification of Maputo Protocol in South Sudan have steered the national campaign in South Sudan since 2012. Initial advocacy efforts Equality Now instigated in 2012 led to the South Sudan parliament passing a motion for the ratification of the Maputo Protocol in 2014" (para 6-7).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:36 a.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"'Javier Milei won with a discourse that denies gender issues,' says Raquel Vivanco, a feminist and the founder of the NGO Now That They See Us" (para 20).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"'Javier Milei won with a discourse that denies gender issues,' says Raquel Vivanco, a feminist and the founder of the NGO Now That They See Us" (para 20).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:27 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Honduras-based Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (Center for Women’s Rights, CDM) filed a petition with the UN human rights committee this month on behalf of a woman known as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped and denied an abortion under Honduras’ draconian laws" (para 20).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Honduras-based Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (Center for Women’s Rights, CDM) filed a petition with the UN human rights committee this month on behalf of a woman known as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped and denied an abortion under Honduras’ draconian laws" (para 20).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:25 a.m.
Countries: Niger
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"She [Chamisa, a girl who was married at 14, but now works to stop child marriage in Niger] is driven to the gatherings in a battered old Toyota by employees of Agir Plus, a charity that helps girls who have escaped forced marriages and gives them vocational training" (para 9). "Alongside 300 other girls at Agir Plus’s centre in Niamey, she is receiving schooling and vocational training" (para 20).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"She [Chamisa, a girl who was married at 14, but now works to stop child marriage in Niger] is driven to the gatherings in a battered old Toyota by employees of Agir Plus, a charity that helps girls who have escaped forced marriages and gives them vocational training" (para 9). "Alongside 300 other girls at Agir Plus’s centre in Niamey, she is receiving schooling and vocational training" (para 20).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:18 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Kaur’s death might have gone unnoticed were it not for Stree Sangharsh, a new women’s-rights organization. Its members held a demonstration that snaked through Model Town to Kaur’s in-laws’ house, where activists chanted, 'Women are not for burning!'" (para 7).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Kaur’s death might have gone unnoticed were it not for Stree Sangharsh, a new women’s-rights organization. Its members held a demonstration that snaked through Model Town to Kaur’s in-laws’ house, where activists chanted, 'Women are not for burning!'" (para 7).
Jan. 9, 2025, 9:25 a.m.
Countries: France
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP" (para 7).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"When political campaigning began in earnest in 1971, 'we could never have imagined that the right to abortion would one day be written into the constitution,' Claudine Monteil, head of the Femmes Monde (Women in the World) association, told AFP" (para 7).
Jan. 8, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-1, NGOFW-DATA-1
"'While men will work long hours and be exempt from care responsibilities and rights, women will have to do all the care work,' the Korean Women's Associations United said in a recent statement" (par. 6).
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-1, NGOFW-DATA-1
"'While men will work long hours and be exempt from care responsibilities and rights, women will have to do all the care work,' the Korean Women's Associations United said in a recent statement" (par. 6).
Jan. 8, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Twenty activists (18 women and 2 men) who are representatives of non-governmental organizations from different social backgrounds were selected as students of the first of its kind School of Gender Activists in Tajikistan, including women and men, young girls, HIV-positive persons and persons with disabilities" (p. 19). "Six mini-projects of local non-governmental organizations were selected to support the implementation of some of the activities of this civil society strategy" (p. 19). "A total of 140 representatives from civil society organizations working with women with disabilities, women living with HIV and women from low-income communities increased their knowledge of the project cycle, monitoring and evaluation, and fundraising" (p. 19). "A network...more
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Twenty activists (18 women and 2 men) who are representatives of non-governmental organizations from different social backgrounds were selected as students of the first of its kind School of Gender Activists in Tajikistan, including women and men, young girls, HIV-positive persons and persons with disabilities" (p. 19). "Six mini-projects of local non-governmental organizations were selected to support the implementation of some of the activities of this civil society strategy" (p. 19). "A total of 140 representatives from civil society organizations working with women with disabilities, women living with HIV and women from low-income communities increased their knowledge of the project cycle, monitoring and evaluation, and fundraising" (p. 19). "A network...more
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:21 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
“One technique, revealed by Wakana Goto, a case worker at PAPS - a Japanese NGO focused on ending sexual exploitation, in a harrowing YouTube documentary, tells how single young women are approached 'downtown where the youths hang out' by predominantly male 'modelling scouts'” (para 9).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
“One technique, revealed by Wakana Goto, a case worker at PAPS - a Japanese NGO focused on ending sexual exploitation, in a harrowing YouTube documentary, tells how single young women are approached 'downtown where the youths hang out' by predominantly male 'modelling scouts'” (para 9).
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:31 p.m.
Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Fayhan al-Ghamdi admitted using a cane and cables to inflict the injuries after doubting his five-year-old daughter’s virginity and taking her to a doctor, according to the campaign group Women to Drive" (para 3).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"Fayhan al-Ghamdi admitted using a cane and cables to inflict the injuries after doubting his five-year-old daughter’s virginity and taking her to a doctor, according to the campaign group Women to Drive" (para 3).
Dec. 13, 2024, 4:38 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1, NGOFW-DATA-1
"With new revelations of abuses involving the creation and dissemination of sexually explicit deepfake images coming out almost daily, Korean women’s rights group Womenlink is decrying the reality in which women are left 'living without a state,' as they no longer feel that their country will provide them with the protection they need" (para 1).
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1, NGOFW-DATA-1
"With new revelations of abuses involving the creation and dissemination of sexually explicit deepfake images coming out almost daily, Korean women’s rights group Womenlink is decrying the reality in which women are left 'living without a state,' as they no longer feel that their country will provide them with the protection they need" (para 1).
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:43 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"The conservative nature of Indian society may mean that few women choose to avail themselves of the new legislation, said Satwinder Satti, the president of Abb Nahi, an organisation that helps abandoned women" (para 24). "Audrey Dmello, the director of Majlis Law, a women’s rights group in India, was more hopeful for the reform" (para 27).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"The conservative nature of Indian society may mean that few women choose to avail themselves of the new legislation, said Satwinder Satti, the president of Abb Nahi, an organisation that helps abandoned women" (para 24). "Audrey Dmello, the director of Majlis Law, a women’s rights group in India, was more hopeful for the reform" (para 27).
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:32 p.m.
Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"'They are forced to be adults before they are adults,' said Kadijatu Barrie, 26, a student and a program coordinator with Strong Girls Evolution, a networking organization for Sierra Leonean women, among other groups" (para 12).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"'They are forced to be adults before they are adults,' said Kadijatu Barrie, 26, a student and a program coordinator with Strong Girls Evolution, a networking organization for Sierra Leonean women, among other groups" (para 12).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:36 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In the southern state of Guerrero, Marina Reyna, director of the Guerrero Association Against Violence toward Women, cautioned that challenges would persist" (para 29).
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1
"In the southern state of Guerrero, Marina Reyna, director of the Guerrero Association Against Violence toward Women, cautioned that challenges would persist" (para 29).