Women's rights

Women MPs from region work together for more equality

BELGRADE -- Women parliament members from 12 countries of Southeastern Europe signed at the Serbian parliament on Tuesday a memorandum of cooperation.

The document is meant to bring more gender equality in those countries, head of the Women's Parliamentary Network in the Serbian assembly Marija Obradovic has said.

A new trend in social media is called “brelfies”. It calls young mothers to take selfies while they breastfeed.

This new trend comes as a reaction to the social media ban on a mother who uploaded a picture while she was breastfeeding. The mother was accused of breaking social media rules on naked content.

?Men are entrusted to women.?

?It?s not over until I say it is over.?

The first sentence belongs to Turkey?s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. He said it while talking about the brutal murder of Özgecan Aslan.

The second belongs to an ordinary male citizen in Turkey, uttered when his female partner asks to part ways.

A controversial conference on gender equality opens at the United Nations on Jan. 14 with its focus squarely on getting men and boys engaged in promoting women's rights.

Organized by Iceland, the "Barbershop Conference" draws global ambassadors and U.N. officials into a conversation about what men can do to stop violence against women and advance equality.

British actress Emma Watson will be the guest of the next year's edition of the Flying Broom Women’s Festival, the organization has announced.

Watson was recently appointed as the U.N. goodwill ambassador on gender equality and became the spokesperson of a new campaign, “HeForShe,” which calls on men to stand up for women’s rights.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 26 insisted he had advocated women's rights throughout his political career, accusing the media of "distorting" his controversial comments on equality between men and women.
      

UN chief Ban Ki-moon launched Oct. 30 a global campaign to end the often deadly practice of female genital mutilation within a generation, as survivors said it had "shattered" their lives.
      
"The mutilation of girls and women must stop in this generation, our generation," Ban said on a visit to the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
      

BELGRADE - Serbs are the oldest nation in Europe in terms of the average age of the population, and the statistical data indicate that women give birth to 1.4 children on average, while the average number of abortions is 2.8, the participants of a meeting entitled Protection of Motherhood in Serbia said on Wednesday.

A court in Athens has temporarily stopped Greek authorities from expelling a Kenyan woman from the country because it deemed that she was in danger of suffering female genital mutilation if she returned to her homeland.

The signing of the Istanbul Convention by the Romanian Government's representatives is a huge success for the fight on the violence against women in Romania, in the region and in the European Union, Social Democrat (PSD) MP Ana Birchall said according to a release to AGERPRES on Thursday.