Many Afghan women and girls continue to undergo forced “virginity exams,” despite the introduction of laws over two years ago requiring consent or a court order for such practices. These highly painful, traumatic, and demeaning tests are routinely carried out on those suspected of so-called “moral crimes,” which include sexual
Islamophobia and malicious attacks have been rising in Canada. The Quebec mosque shooting, which resulted in six men’s deaths, was just one of many Islamophobic hate crimes in 2017. According to Statistics Canada, there were 349 police-reported hate crimes against Muslims, peaking in February, a month after the Quebec mosque
A joint statement released on November 30, 2020, summarizes the future steps the Egyptian Public Prosecution and Italy’s Public Prosecution in Rome have decided to take regarding the case of Giulio Regeni, a former Cambridge student whose body was found in Cairo, Egypt on February 6, 2016. Egypt’s prosecution team
Scotland has recently passed a bill to make menstrual hygiene products universally available to those who need them. This makes the country the first in the world to have done so. The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill requires local authorities in specified public places to ensure that anyone who
Yemen is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. In fact, the war-torn country has been undergoing this crisis since 2014. The United Nations’ agencies claim that more than 80 per cent of the population require some form of assistance. Also, 20 million Yemeni civilians are facing food insecurity and 14
