Women's rights

The 20th year of the Gender and Women?s Studies Graduate Program is now being celebrated with a three-day event, the International Conference on Knowledge and Politics in Gender and Women?s Studies, between Oct 9 and 11 at ODTÜAnkara?s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) institutionalized feminism and began its quest to give master?s diplomas to people from different generations of feminist

Supermodel Naomi Cambpell decided to participate in #FreeTheNipple move sharing a very bare still from her forthcoming Taschen two-volume book.

The hashtag #FreeTheNipple refers to the dissatisfaction among women that social networks like Facebook (and Facebook-owned Instagram) censorship of female nipples , even in posts of breastfeeding.

Tara Ruby, a former Air Force servicemember remembers a time when there weren’t lactation rooms for nursing mothers in the military. She would sneak into bathrooms and empty offices to nurse her newborn. When the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso opened a lactation room, the woman who is now a photographer, gathered ten mothers breastfeeding in uniform to celebrate!

Female genital mutilation (FGM)  is estimated to affect up to 140 million girls and women worldwide, and is considered a violation of human rights. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between 100-140 million women and girls are living with the consequences of female genital mutilation.

A limited number of Iranian women will be allowed to watch Volleyball World League games in Tehran later this month, a senior government official has told The Associated Press, part of a government move to allow women and families to attend male sporting events.

Hundreds of mothers will be attending a mass breastfeeding in a mall in Bulgaria's capital Sofia.

The event is scheduled for Monday between 12:30 and 15:30 and has been organized by people in the Facebook group, ''Let's Support Breastfeeding in Public Spaces''.

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee will represent Denitsa Panayotova in a lawsuit in defense of the right of women to breastfeed in public places.

The lawsuit has been issued against a mall in Bulgaria's capital Sofia and in particular against the store, whose security guard asked the woman to stop breastfeeding her child.

Draft legislation aimed at boosting a flagging birth rate threatens to reduce Iranian women to "baby-making machines" and set their rights back by decades, Amnesty International warned on March 11.
      

NEW YORK - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and chairperson of the Gender Equality Coordination Body Zorana Mihajlovic has said that women in Serbia could make a significant contribution to the country's economic development, and that there should be more women in leadership positions in large companies.

Thank God. Finally, we have heard something nice about women from the president: ?Violence against women is a betrayal of humanity.?

I think the latest public service announcement currently on TV is great. However, the fact that I liked it does not mean I believed it. I do want to believe the president, that?s correct. But I don?t.