Countries: Russia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The next year, authorities designated the prominent Russian nonprofit Nasiliu.net, which supports domestic violence victims, as a foreign agent, a label regularly applied to critics of Mr. Putin’s politics. (Nasiliu.net’s founder, Anna Rivina, was personally deemed a foreign agent.) In 2021, they shut down a major national feminist festival, Moscow FemFest. 'They didn’t refer to any laws but simply said, ‘We need to clear the space,' the festival’s founder, Lola Tagaeva, told me. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Feminist Antiwar Resistance quickly formed and became one of the loudest protest movements in the country. More than 100 of its activists have faced various forms of persecution, the organization...more

Countries: Gambia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The movement sparked widespread controversy, with many advocates facing backlash for speaking up against the practice. The Gambian government, meanwhile, remained largely silent, likely due to the sensitivity of the issue and the cultural significance of FGM in the country. The main opposition parties, including their women and youth branches, also refrained from commenting, potentially fearing that doing so would impact their performance in future elections. It wasn’t until the UN Commission on the Status of Women met in March 2024 that the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Welfare issued a statement reaffirming the government’s commitment to upholding the rights of girls and women by maintaining the ban on...more

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public. The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She said the clinic will offer 'scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal'" (para 1-2). "Sima Sabet, a UK-based Iranian journalist who was a target of an Iranian assassination attempt last year, said the move is “shameful”, adding that: 'The idea of establishing clinics to...more

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

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 of a 14-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in Tehran who protested by taking off her head scarf at school. The girl, Masooumeh, was identified by school cameras and detained; soon afterward, she was taken to the hospital to be...more

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2, SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Amini, a Turkish citizen, was detained by police while visiting Tehran in September. Her still-unexplained death has spurred widespread protests against the country’s theocratic government and its hijab requirements which have been in place since the 1970s. Iranian police have responded with brutal crackdowns on the gatherings resulting in almost 20,000 arrests and hundreds of deaths, according to multiple reports" (para 2).

Countries: South Korea
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

“The blowback and fear that 4B practitioners experience underscores their conviction that Korea is still a frightening place for women. Yeowon’s photo was posted on an Ilbe site after participating in a feminist protest, and she was harassed and sexually threatened online for weeks. Youngmi said men have tried to physically attack her on the street three or four times. She recalled an episode when she and some friends, who all had cropped haircuts, were dining at a Japanese restaurant in Daegu. Throughout the night, the restaurant owner and his friends made gagging and puking noises and gestures at them. When Minji and I met at a coffee shop near...more

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

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 of a 14-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in Tehran who protested by taking off her head scarf at school. The girl, Masooumeh, was identified by school cameras and detained; soon afterward, she was taken to the hospital to be...more

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Meanwhile, Taliban security forces have used a water cannon to disperse crowds protesting against the ban on university education for women, witnesses said, as the decision by the government continued to cause anger in Afghanistan and other countries around the world" (para 23).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

“Female genital mutilation, or ‘the cut’, remains illegal in Kenya but is still being practised in some places, usually during school holidays, by women using crude methods and tools. There have been cases of activists being attacked by those carrying out FGM, but assaults on law enforcement officers are rare” (5). “[Tony] Mwebia [founder of Men End FGM Foundation] was attacked by [a] group of men in Kuria in December 2016 after he and a colleague were suspected of filming a street parade of girls undergoing the cut” (9). "According to The Nation newspaper, about 70 girls were rescued by the police, with Viola Cherono, a human rights activist from...more

Countries: Cuba
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The wound of the bad legal-criminal treatment that the case had is reopened, and therefore the effectiveness of the sanction imposed, the work of the court and the high institutional tolerance in relation to the lack of transparency of the criminal process are questioned" (para 4). "For both cases — the femicide and the Bécquer case — 'the full weight of the law' has been requested, within the framework of the new Penal Code, which provides for more severe penalties for cases of gender-based violence. But it is not about more years of imprisonment or more drastic penalties" (para 10). "As feminists, we appeal to criminal justice based on facts,...more

Countries: Qatar
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

Migrant women who come to Qatar, mostly from Africa and Asia, are often the main breadwinner for their families. Many are reluctant to speak out because they fear losing those jobs, says Ann Abunda, founder of Sandigan, a Kuwait-based domestic worker organization. When she asked her network to inquire about issues of harassment in Qatar’s hotels, more than a dozen women replied, either directly via social media or through her contacts in Qatar (para 23). "Women told her there was no point in reporting harassment because employers would not act and were angered by the complaint. '[Women] just don’t want to talk [publicly] about that,' says Abunda. 'But they are...more

Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"[There is the presence of] Anti-gender discourse and online threats against women politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and women’s non-governmental organizations, including by high-level politicians" (7).

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Despite two public executions, looming threats against protesters, and hundreds of daily arrests, including raiding the homes of celebrities and intellectuals who publicly oppose the government, the protesters continue to show up. The resistance continues. Strikes are taking place in every major industry. University students stage sit-ins, art installations or boycott classes. Eyewitness images and videos on social media capture the extent of unthinkable violence" (para 20).

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"As a prominent activist, Khoshnavaz has been summoned for questioning again, but experience had taught her not to comply this time. ‘They called me and told me to go for interrogation,’ she says. ‘I didn’t go. I had to run.'" (para 15). "Rights groups estimate that more than 250 protesters have been killed by security forces using live ammunition and tear gas to quell demonstrations that have spread to dozens of cities" (para 35). "Hossein Mahini, Persepolis’s retired captain, has been arrested on charges of ‘encouraging riots and sympathising with the enemy’ after he posted support for the protests on social media. Ali Daei, the most famous Iranian footballer, had...more

Countries: South Korea
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Kwon said she would not openly talk about gender issues around her Korean friends. 'I know how guys will react', she said. 'I know they're going to be like, ' This is another girl talking about gender issues again.'" (pp 22-23). "Many of those [feminists] who work publicly receive death threats on a regular basis, leading some to leave the country" (pp 27).