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Bulgaria: Crime, Corruption, & Culture - a Challenge for Women's Rights
A Safeworld Student Writers Project - by Victoria Pavlova; 'For all its progress in the area of democratic and civic values in the past three decades, Bulgaria…
Cameroon: Women, War and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
By Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo: Post-Conflict reconstruction: The Bafanji women tell it all - When it began, the aftermath challenge and how they contributed to the…
Australia: Escort agency offers virgin for sale
What sort of man will pay $12,000 for an 18-year-old's virginity? This is what Sweet Girls Premium Escort, which is offering a Chinese-born Melbourne high…
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Women’s internet café is small victory for Afghan equality
The café is the idea of Afghan nonprofit organisation Young Women for Change. Operating on a tiny budget, the team of volunteers favours projects that have…
Afghanistan: Girl Power
Al Jazeera's People & Power follows the young Afghan women taking the battle for gender equality onto the streets of Kabul.
Weaving Handicrafts and Hope for Displaced Women from Burma
Update from WEAVE - Safeworld Field Partner on the Thai-Burma border: This event celebrated the milestone of WEAVE's 15 years of successful economic…
WOMENS RIGHTS
Algeria: 145 women elected to parliament
Algeria’s legislative election saw women take almost a third of the seats, making the national assembly the most gender-balanced in the region but activists…
ISRAEL: Silencing girl scouts from singing
The problem of women’s singing in Israel simply refuses to go away. As the Israeli national-religious population continues to lurch rightward, the belief that…
Mother’s Day: A Matter of Life & Death
By Anushay Hossain: 'As a Bangladeshi woman, I could not have felt more fortunate when I decided to give birth in America.... I come from a country that has…
CHILDREN AND TEENS
Australia: Virginity for Sale
By Claire Poyser - A Safeworld Student Writer Project: "Earlier this year, a Sydney-based escort company advertised the virginity of one of their teenage…
South Africa: Girls Need More Than ‘Access’ to Education
By Koketso Moeti - South Africa Correspondent for Safeworld: The consequences of poverty affect women and female children differently from their male…
Wanted Congo general still using child soldiers
A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government,…
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Turkey: Domestic violence on the rise, data reveals
Incidents of domestic violence in Turkey increased from approximately 48,000 cases in 2008 to over 80,000 in 2011, representing an increase of nearly 70…
Colombia: Domestic violence is women’s worst enemy
In Colombia, a country still beleaguered by conflict, violence has disrupted the lives of millions over the past five decades. But for the country’s women, the…
Men are affected by domestic abuse too
When you think about the term “domestic disturbance,” the first thing you think of is a man abusing his wife or girlfriend. Your mind’s eye probably sees an…
TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY
Lover Boys: Sex trafficking in Holland
This is the story of Ibrahim, a courageous Dutch-Moroccan social worker in the Netherlands who is tackling the high incidences of sex-trafficking of young…
Africa: Sold into a life of despair
I had arrived in Burkina Faso to investigate a human trafficking problem escalating into one of the worst in Africa. A London-based organisation had tipped me…
IRELAND: Horrors of human trafficking revealed
Police say that there were 57 alleged victims of human trafficking — including 13 children — reported in 2011. 23 were reported to authorities by…
CONFLICT AND PEACE
Cameroon: Women, War and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
By Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo: Post-Conflict reconstruction: The Bafanji women tell it all - When it began, the aftermath challenge and how they contributed to the…
War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka
On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered…
Families in camp scattered by DRC fighting
“We were together in the forest when the fighting forced us to flee,” Mukakarimba said in tears, cradling her little boy to protect him from the lashing rain…
ENVIRONMENT AND WOMEN
Sustainable farming with a Masai women's group
The people of Namelok in Kenya's Amboseli region have had to learn to adapt to change. They are ethnic Maasai and traditionally keep livestock, but successive…
Africa: Empower Women for Food Security, Says UN
"Where women have less power than men do, nutrition suffers, household security weakens and access to healthcare lags," says the UNDP's first-ever Africa Human…
INDONESIA: Living with dirty water
Ibu Sutria, 53, lives in a wooden shack on the banks of West Java’s Krukut River, which runs approximately 20km south from the capital, Jakarta, to the city of…
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