List of Women’s Rights articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hardly Justice for Farkhunda
It took less than two months for the Afghan judicial system to arrest, investigate, and try 49 men accused of involvement in the killing of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old woman who was murdered by a mob. Justice was swift, but was it thorough?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nepal’s Renegade Strategy to Save Mothers
The country's bold strategy to fight maternal mortality flouts conventional wisdom and relies on a controversial drug -- and in the wake of the devastating earthquake, it could be more important than ever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Women are more than victims, so it is time focus security strategies on them
Clearly extremists are not afraid to fight or to die. They often welcome and embrace the idea of martyrdom. So, what are they afraid of? A common operating procedure among various extremist groups is to control and disempower girls and women.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghanistan is Failing to Help Abused Women
Abuse against women in Afghan homes is horrifyingly pervasive; around 87 percent of Afghan women are believed to have experienced domestic abuse at least once. What is Afghanistan doing to end the abuse?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 North Korea’s Fellow Travelers
Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Laureates, and 26 other women will be making a big mistake if they march across the DMZ with Christine Ahn.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The G20 Is Finally Taking Gender Equality Seriously
It’s about time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do These Two Chimps Have More Rights Than a Woman in Saudi Arabia?
Two chimpanzees in New York were granted a right to habeas corpus. But in Saudi Arabia, women still need to be accompanied to a court by a male family member.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Ashley’s War’: A look at the use of Cultural Support Teams in Afghanistan
Thousands of women have served in direct combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, as helicopter pilots, military police, artillery officers, interpreters, and K9 dog handlers, and nearly 200 of them have died, most from combat-related injuries, from RPG explosions to mortar fire to aircraft crashes. That number includes two of my fellow Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) techs: Senior Airman Liz Loncki was killed by a booby-trapped car bomb in 2007, Staff Sergeant Kim Voelz died disarming an IED in Baghdad in 2003. Her widower Max is also an Army EOD tech, and she died in his arms.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are Women the Key to Peace in Colombia?
As the country's five-decade war winds down, how the government disarms female fighters could define the coming truce.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Preteen Sex Slaves of the Islamic State
For the young victims of the jihadist group’s systematic campaign of rape and imprisonment, the ordeal is far from over.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Defending Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Lives on the Line
Amnesty International launched a new report on the mounting threat and violence facing those on the front line standing up for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Lynching, Then Anger in Afghanistan
After a brutal killing, Afghanistan’s women turn their anger toward men. But will the protests and outrage result in a change for women's rights in the country?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A few brass tacks: Why gender arguments blind the military to bigger problems
In two recent essays on the subject of women in combat, Marine Captain Katey Van Dam directly addressed the issue of women's physical aptitude for infantry combat. She is justified in taking up the case because so many opponents have used the matter of physicality as an argument against their presence in infantry units. However, no matter how well either side presents its view, both sexes have much more in common physically than they realize. What they share is a lack of physical ability that constitutes a dangerous threat to ground troops' battlefield success.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Lynching of Syed Sarifuddin Khan
India is facing a horrific rape crisis. But in India’s northeast, ethnic tensions may have led to an innocent man’s murder.
