- Women’s Rights Activist Suspended from Afghan Parliament (5/22/2007)
Women’s rights activist and lawmaker Malalai Joya, a 29-year-old from the Farah province, was suspended from the Afghan Parliament yesterday after she described the Parliament as a barn full of animals… - Iranian-American Scholar Charged with Revolutionary Conspiracy (5/22/2007)
Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari was charged yesterday with conspiring to overthrow Iran’s government after being imprisoned two weeks ago when she tried to return to the US from Iran… - Renewed Efforts to Implement One-Child Policy Spark Protests in Rural China (5/21/2007)
Villagers in southwestern China have been protesting and rioting over the past four days in reaction to a recent crackdown on violators of China’s so-called one-child policy… - New Report Ranks Best and Worst Countries for Mothers and Children (5/11/2007)
In its annual “Mother’s Day Report Card,” Save the Children this week released a ranking of the best and worst countries for mothers and children…
[Romania is 38th out of 41 countries in its group ahead of only Albania, Macedonia and Moldova] -
Amnesty International Increases Support for Abortion Rights (5/11/2007)
Amnesty International — a human rights group that had previously remained mostly neutral on abortion — has released a new policy on sexual and reproductive rights that increases the organization’s support for abortion rights… - Women Primarily Contract HIV from Their Husbands, Study Finds (5/10/2007)
Worldwide, marital sex is the leading cause of HIV infection in women, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health… - Irish Teen Wins Right to Travel to England for Abortion (5/10/2007)
Ireland’s High Court ruled yesterday that a pregnant teen carrying a fatally deformed fetus can travel outside the country to obtain an abortion, after the motion was previously defeated by the lower and middle courts…
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