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“It is extremely sad for me therefore to hear of the recent incident where a woman named Hannah was raped and killed on a public beach and pictures widely circulated in social media with no respect for her dignity.” 

Safinaz Abu al-Shamat and Jamal al-Saadi made history last Sunday by becoming the first Saudi women to register to vote.

For the first time in the kingdom's history, women will be able to vote, register as candidates and run for office in the municipal elections to be held on December 12. These will be the first polls since the 2011 decision by late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud to grant women the right to vote and run for office.

A South-South Learning Tour Explores How to Put an End to Sexual and Gender Based Violence

" I was amazed to see that many different sectors are providing support to survivors […] the police, doctors, psychologists all provide support in a coordinated fashion to prevent violence against women." 

- Yemendra Upadhyay, Government representative from Nepal

Elizabeth Warren Schools GOP on Women’s Rights

“Let’s be clear about something: The Republican scheme to defund Planned Parenthood is not some sort of surprised response to a highly edited video,” she said. “Nope. The Republican vote to defund Planned Parenthood is just one more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated, right-wing attack on women’s rights. And I’m sick and tired of it.”