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  • 17 Feb 2013
    Flash mob for women's rights invades Geneva’s Ecumenical Centre

    A dancing flash mob erupted in the cafeteria at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14 February, as part of the One Billion Rising initiative.

  • 2 Dec 2012
    Egypt’s new constitution limits freedoms and ignores rights of women

    The draft constitution approved by Egypt’s Constituent Assembly poses serious human rights problems, a number of NGOs have said.

  • 19 Apr 2012
    Female genius and religion

    Key aspects of Christian (and notably Christendom) tradition have been used to cement or justify women's oppression. But dismissing Christianity simply as something to be thankfully consigned to history means consigning all the achievements of women who have identified themselves as Christian alongside it, says Alison Jasper. From this perspective, all Christian women are victims if not collaborators. A rounder picture is needed.

  • 16 Apr 2011
    Poverty: Nothing about us, without us, can be for us

    Just as women’s rights would never have been won without women at the helm, poverty will never be truly addressed until those who experience it firsthand are at the heart of the process.

  • 9 Dec 2010
    Women keep up pressure over budget cuts and wage inequality

    The Fawcett Society has pledged to keep up pressure on the government over gender equality and has welcomed a further EHRC investigation of the issue.

  • 9 May 2008
    Women's rights and religious liberty

    Rowan Williams' recent lecture on the religious grounding of universal human rights raised difficult questions about the status of women in relation to freedom for faith.