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14 June 2022 - NPWJ News Digest on FGM and Women's Rights
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Wildfires scorch parts of Europe amid extreme heat wave
Nbc News, 13 July 2022, 14 Jul 2022
European Union officials issued a warning last week that climate change is behind the extremely dry and hot summer on the continent. A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In Portugal, Civil Protection commander André Fernandes said that multiple fires have caused the evacuation of more than 600 people. About 120 people needed medical treatment, with two people — one civilian and one firefighter — suffering serious injuries, Fernandes said.
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Risking a Society’s Retribution, Growing Numbers of Girls Resist Genital Cutting
The New York Times , 14 Jun 2022
Sierra Leone is one of a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have not banned cutting. Now, young women are defying mothers and grandmothers by refusing to undergo the procedure.
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Rescue Women Liberia, Partners Intensify Awareness Against SGBV, Harmful Traditional Practice In Rural Montserrado
Front Page Africa, 14 Jun 2022
The fight against Sexual Gender-based Violence (SGBV) and Harmful Traditional Practices (HTPs) remain a challenge for all actors in various communities across Liberia. Sadly not much has been done as women and girls lives’ are lost daily with some ending up in forever pain and mental illnesses amongst others.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Opens its Eighty-Second Session
OHCHR, 13 Jun 2022
Mr. Cissé-Gouro commended the Committee for its work on mainstreaming women's rights into the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. He noted that the Committee was closely monitoring the impact of two situations of armed conflict on women's rights and their participation in peace processes, reconstruction efforts and transitional justice mechanisms – Ukraine and Afghanistan.
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Restaurant attack on female diners in China sparks outrage over gender violence
Financial Times , 12 Jun 2022
A brutal attack on a group of female diners in a restaurant in north-eastern China over the weekend has sparked a public uproar over sexual harassment and gender violence in the country as authorities raced to silence a backlash.
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Ruto Signs Women Charter Detailing Policy Interventions, Gender Inclusion Key Pillar
Capital News, 10 Jun 2022
Deputy President William Ruto on Friday signed a women’s charter detailing policy interventions that his government will put in place if elected in August 9thpresidential election.
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Turkey Fails to Enforce Court Orders Leaving Women Vulnerable to Abuse
Human Rights Watch , 10 Jun 2022
Human Rights Watch writes in advance of the 82nd session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (“the Committee”) relating to Turkey’s (“the Government”) compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (“the Convention”) in its eighth periodic report.
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Mozambique: The female force policing violence against women
Africa News , 09 Jun 2022
The project seeks to change perceptions in a country where half of all women are married before they are 18 and, according to UN figures, more than one woman in five has suffered violence. In 2009, a law was introduced to punish violence against women, but implementation has been slow, especially in remote areas. It is empowered to arrest offenders in violence against women and detain them while waiting for police to arrive from the nearest town.
For women, migration is a constant fight
AlJazeera , 09 Jun 2022
The gendered costs of anti-refugee policies like Title 42 need to be acknowledged and addressed. Joy, who is a friend and now the coordinator of that same shelter, asked me to come by her office to help her prepare her statement for a press conference. It was being held to protest the May 20 decision by a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge to block Joe Biden’s attempt to rescind Title 42 – a policy that invokes public health as a reason to deny her and thousands of others like her the right to apply for asylum.
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