Tag: Women’s Rights
‘Bringing dignity to fellow human beings’
Dr Rai was then a health coordinator with Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment - an organisation that empowers and supports the needs and basic human rights of indigenous women.
Andrea Ng | The Straits Times | Thursday, Apr 02, 2015
WHEN Dr Subadhra Devi Rai first arrived in a refugee...
The Sexual Abuse of Deaf Women: a Human Rights Scandal
Imagine living in a home that is also, strangely, a foreign country, where you can neither fully understand what is going on, let alone be understood. Now imagine your life was like that 24 hours a day—every single day. This is the plight of women like Anica and Diane,*...
Is gender inequality really so low in the Philippines?
The Philippines ranked ninth out of 142 countries in terms of gender equality, according to the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2014. As one of the top 10 countries, the Philippines keeps company with high-income Nordic countries, such as Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
21 March...
Help awaits Indonesia’s women prisoners
Jobs are hard to find for women who have served prison terms in Indonesia. Newly established Second Chance Foundation however has plans to help them rebuild their lives through work that leads to financial independence.
By Devianti Faridz, Indonesia correspondent,Channel NewsAsia
POSTED: 16 Mar 2015 19:06
UPDATED: 16 Mar 2015 22:14
BANTEN, INDONESIA:...
The global plight of domestic workers: few rights, little freedom, frequent abuse
A quarter of the world’s 53 million domestic staff have no labour rights, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation, beatings and sexual assault
Rebecca Falconer and Annie Kelly | Tuesday 17 March 2015 06.00 GMT
An estimated 53 million people, mostly women, are employed as domestic workers in private households around the...
PWD rights in post-2015 UN agenda backed
The National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) says it fully supports the international call to firmly include the human rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the post-2015 development agenda.
By Jake Soriano, VERA Files
The National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) says it fully supports the international call to firmly...
More equality, diversity make a better Indonesia
Accepting women's rights is never easy. Fifty years ago, the accepted wisdom in the Western world was that a woman's place was in the kitchen (and elsewhere inside the house).
By Mario Rustan ,The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network
March 10, 2015, 12:01 am TWN
In university, I was pretty clueless when doing...
Washing labels deemed sexist in Indonesia
Backlash against Indonesian clothing company intensifies after International Women’s Day
10 March 2015 | Bryce Gibson
Outrage was sparked by an Indonesian clothing company last week, when it created washing labels that suggested that the owners "Give this shirt to your woman. It's her job". The company have since had to...
