Girls in Nepal sleep in ‘menstruation huts’ despite ban, study finds – CNN
Bowing to U.S. demands, U.N. waters down resolution on sexual violence in conflict – Reuters
Like the young women who have fled Saudi Arabia’s restrictive regime, Sheikha Latifa has made sure no one can forget how few freedoms are allotted to women in the Middle East’s most conservative societies — or how costly crossing Dubai’s ruler can be.
‘Sheer evil’ maternity ward attack toll rises to 24
Pakistan girls murdered over phone video footage — BBC News
Bangladesh charges 16 for burning girl alive
Mexico imagines a world without women, in strike against gender violence — CNN
British woman Natalie Crichlow set on fire in Barbados – BBC News
Russian domestic violence, women fight back
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-504937
France to allow women to have volition over their own adulthood
Peru Beirut pageant protest with stats of violence against women https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/11/01/contestants-turn-miss-peru-pageant-powerful-protest
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistani-model-qandeel-baloch-dead-offend-conservatives/
Police: Fashion model who stirred controversy strangled to death http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistani-model-qandeel-baloch-dead-offend-conservatives/
Despite pioneering female politicians like Sanna Marin, Finnish society is far from gender-balanced. https://www.politico.eu/article/finland-is-no-feminist-utopia/
UAE Gender Equality Awards Honor the True Heroes: Men
French singer pulls out of festivals amid protests – ABC News
Cantat was sentenced to eight years in prison and served four after beating to death Marie Trintignant in 2003 during a dispute in a hotel room in Lithuania, where she was making a film. https://apnews.com/4c1643aac38c4ebeb13ababffe39caed
Istanbul Convention: Poland to leave European treaty on violence against women https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53538205
Detained and forced to have a ‘virginity test’
Economic abuse survivor forced into £50,000 debt by her husband on why it’s so hard to prove
