Le projet d’appui à la massification de la participation politique des femmes aux échéances électorales de 2018 au Cameroun est lancé. L’annonce a été faite le 12 avril dernier, au cours d’une cérémonie que présidait la ministre de la Promotion de la Femme et de la Famille du Cameroun, le Pr Marie Thérèse Abena Ondoa, en présence de Benedikt Madl, chef de la section gouvernance de l’UE-Cameroun.

Malgré 30 ans de changements législatifs, des victimes d’agression sexuelle se heurtent encore à des affirmations du genre « elle l’a bien cherché » en cours de procès. Particulièrement en Chambre criminelle et pénale, lors du contre-interrogatoire de la victime.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today warned Iran’s high-ranking clerics against the “flooding of ravaging moral decay” by the West, specifically the legalization of homosexuality.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Abortion might seem an unlikely topic at a party but in Jamaica, it can be the subject of lyrics that get people dancing and singing along.

SAN SALVADOR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Six months pregnant with her first child, teenager Estefanie Esmeralda is well aware of the dangers the mosquito-borne Zika virus may pose to her unborn baby.

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In Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in the United States, the Zika epidemic has exposed the often hostile policy, programmatic and legal environment women face on issues surrounding pregnancy.

Policymakers’ long-standing failure to prioritize women’s health and autonomy has left women—particularly poor women—in many countries more vulnerable to the consequences of Zika than they would otherwise be.

Policies and resources to support the rights of women to prevent pregnancy, obtain safe abortion care or become a parent and raise a child should be an ongoing priority, rather than something that receives fleeting attention at a moment of acute crisis.

05.19.16 - (PRESS RELEASE) The absolute ban on abortion in the Philippines should be repealed and access to sexual and reproductive health services should be addressed, according to the United Nations Committee against Torture (U.N. CAT). Specifically, the committee called on the government to provide universal access to modern contraception and expressed concern about misinformation on contraception, particularly in Manila.

Women Deliver’s 4th Global Conference, 16-19 May 2016, was the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights in the last decade and one of the first major global conferences following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Almost 6,000 people from 169 countries participated.

The IFPA has called on the Government to clarify how it intends to bring Ireland’s abortion laws into compliance with human rights standards. The call follows renewed criticism of Ireland’s abortion laws by UN member states during an examination of Ireland’s human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 11th May.

Migration et VIH : une double peine ? Impacts de la migration et du diagnostic sur les conditions de vie des femmes migrantes d’Afrique subsaharienne en France