W ho runs the world? The 2017 World’s 100 Most Powerful Women identifies a new generation of icons, game-changers and gate crashers who are boldly scaling new heights and transforming the world.

The United Nations defines against women as “any act of gender-based that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in

The mission of the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) is to help people to lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives.

Facts and figures: Ending against women Various forms of . It is estimated that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner or sexual by a …

Beijing, China – September 1995 Action for Equality, Development and Peace . PLATFORM FOR ACTION . Table of contents: Mission Statement

The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social and political and economic equality for women by using research and education to reduce against women, promote abortion rights and birth control access, global women’s rights.

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Comfort women were women and teens forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II.. The name “comfort women” is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安 …

Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project that collects data on gender inequality in the law. The dataset diagnoses legal barriers limiting women’s full economic participation and encourages policymakers to reform discriminatory laws.

The deepest differences between Muslims and Westerners concern not politics but sexuality. Each side has a long history of looking at the other’s sexual mores with a mixture of astonishment and disgust.