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Latin America | Brazil | Scandal

Survey Indicates 97 Percent of Women Were Harassed in Public and Private Transport

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Almost all (97 percent) of Brazilian women over age eighteen who were surveyed, said they had experiences incidents of sexual harassment on public transport, in Apps transport or in taxis, according to research conducted by the Instituto Patrícia Galvão and Instituto Locomotiva, supported by Uber. "It's a compelling number. This is everyday life for women, the very expression of what is happening," said Jacira Melo, executive director of the Patrícia Galvão Institute. In February of this year, the institutes interviewed 1,081 women who used public or private transportation in the thr
Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Culture

The Saudi government is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking the IMEI number on their cellphones

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Women who flee Saudi Arabia expect to be chased. They expect their friends to be interviewed, their social media to be scoured, their passports to be frozen. They mostly do not expect Saudi government agents to hunt down the old box for their iPhone. But according to multiple sources who spoke with INSIDER, this is what has been happening in Saudi Arabia's quest to track down the growing number of women who flee the country every year. Cellphone packaging can provide information that could — with the help of spy-grade tracking equipment — trace a Saudi runaway to within a few feet of her
South Asia | Afghanistan | Crimes

Mena Mangal: Journalist and women’s rights campaigner shot dead in broad daylight in Kabul

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An Afghan journalist and political advisor, who was vocal about women’s rights in the country, has been gunned down in broad daylight, just days after saying she believed her life was in danger. Mena Mangal was shot dead on Saturday morning in a public place while she was on her way to work in the capital city of Kabul. Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said one or possibly more assailants had escaped the scene but no one has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack and police say it is not yet clear whether the murder was a terror attack or an attack from
Latin America | Mexico | Crimes

Politician Says Homeless People Should Be Put Down By Lethal Injection

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A Mexican councillor has provoked outrage after that homeless people should be put down like animals to keep the number of them on the streets down. Olga Gutierrez Machorro believes that beggars should be culled with lethal injection, believing it to be in their best interests. She said: “Yes they’re a little crazy, but they’re harmless. “Which is why I think to myself wouldn’t it be kinder to just give them a lethal injection?” Unbelievably, Machorro, who is a member of the local government in Tecamachalco, Mexico, is also the councillor responsible for the Vulnerable Groups C
Africa | Nigeria | Crimes

The World’s Hardest Country for Women

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At age 14, Amina should have been in school. Instead she became a bride, and six years later, living in abject poverty, she still endures the painful aftermath of the prolonged labor that led to the death of her baby during childbirth. In the rural Hausa tradition in northern Nigeria, it is expected that women give birth at home. Any woman who cries out while in labor is presumed to be weak. But when Amina’s situation got worse, she had to be rushed by her siblings to the hospital. By the time she got there she had lost her baby. The prolonged obstructed labor left Amina with a fistula
North America | United States | Crimes

Alabama, U.S. officials to improve women’s prison known for sex abuse

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Alabama has reached an agreement with U.S. civil rights officers to address sexual abuse at a state women's prison where an investigation found inmates were being raped, fondled and harassed by guards, officials said on Thursday. Governor Robert Bentley announced the plan to reform Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in central Alabama, where federal investigators last year issued a report documenting conditions they called unconstitutional. The U.S. Department of Justice found that inmates were living in fear for their safety in an environment where some were forced to perform sex acts to o
Middle East | Egypt | Culture

Female Genital Mutilation In Egypt Has Affected 92 Percent Of Married Women

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Roughly 92 percent of Egyptian women who have been married have undergone female genital mutilation, according to a recent survey from the government’s Ministry of Health. The number has decreased since the last statistic released in 2000, but it is still alarmingly high considering the practice was criminalized in Egypt in 2008. The majority of women who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) were between nine and 12 years old, Egypt’s Minister of Health Adel Adawy said. Data was pulled from a poll that surveyed women in Egypt between 15 and 49 years old. A similar poll conducted
North America | United States | Crimes

Honor Killings in America

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Violence against women is not just a problem in countries like Afghanistan and Somalia. It's happening in the U.S. too. Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, gets it. “I don’t see,” he told me this week, “how anyone who believes in the rule of law and the rights of women could do anything other than support efforts to end female-genital mutilation, forced marriage and honor-killings—practices that have no place in the 21st century.” These things do happen. Two teenage sisters are shot, point blank, in the back of their father’s taxi, apparently for the shame they brou
South Asia | Pakistan | Crimes

Shocking Conditions for Balochistan’s Women

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Illiteracy, honor killings, maternal mortality, and acid attacks – clearly, conditions for women in Balochistan are shockingly poor, and they are getting worse. But despite claims of action, there is little evidence that the chief minister Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch or his all-male cabinet have done anything of significance to address the situation. For now, it appears that Balochistan’s women will continue to suffer. In Balochistan’s traditionally patriarchal society, women regularly face discrimination, assault, and murder in the name of “honor.” They have little space in the politi
North America | United States | Culture

Women’s groups campaign in D.C. to help victims of forced marriages

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Tahirih Justice Center, a legal aid and advocacy group in the Virginia, reported as many as 3,000 suspected or confirmed cases of forced marriage in the United States over the previous two years. They said the practice is found in many immigrant communities, especially among South Asians, from the Washington suburbs to ethnic enclaves in cities including Houston, New York and San Francisco. Nevertheless, they said, there is no U.S. law against the practice, and laws that could help victims in some regions, including the District and Virginia, are more geared to victims of kidnapping or phy
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North America | United States | Politics

Poll: Hillary Clinton top-rated 2016 candidate among women

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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s standing with women will give her a “decided advantage” in the 2016 presidential race, according to a new Gallup Poll. Nearly 6 in 10 women, or 56%, have a favorable opinion of Clinton — the highest for any Democrat or Republican considering a White House bid. That compares to 44% of men who rate her favorably. A gender gap has existed in every presidential election since 1980. Women were the majority of voters in the 2012 presidential election, and President Obama won 55% of their votes while Mitt Romney garnered 44%.
Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Culture

Saudi wife is divorced, lashed over WhatsApp post

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A man from Saudi Arabia divorced his wife because of her WhatsApp status: “I pray to be patient enough to put up with you,” followed by initials matching the husband’s name. The 32-year-old woman admitted that she posted the offensive status after she and her husband argued via the mobile messaging service. She was sentenced to 70 lashes as punishment.
Asia | Japan | Politics

US envoy Caroline Kennedy receives death threats in Japan

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Police in Japan are investigating death threats against US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and another diplomat. The US Embassy in Tokyo reportedly received the threatening phone calls last month from an English speaker. US Consul General Alfred Magleby, who is based on the island of Okinawa, was also a target of the threats. Ms Kennedy is the daughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, and became the US ambassador to Japan in November 2013. Japanese media reports said the phone calls came last month and the caller spoke English.
Asia | China | Business

Trend: Girls lured into job interview rape traps

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A few days ago, a young woman named Xiaomei was lured into a supposed job interview through a popular online chat tool. Her interviewer then allegedly attempted to sexually assault her. Police say that it is common for young women to be lured into meeting in person through popular chat tools like Moumou and Weixin. Authorities remind students to verify the identity of their contact, even though online job searches are more convenient. They have also been advised not to meet with strangers alone.

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