Italy must urgently act to end violence against women, UN rights expert says Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on violence against women. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré January 2012 – Italy must do more to protect women from violence and urgently address the underlying structural causes of gender inequality and discrimination, an independent United Nations human rights expert warned after visiting the country.Rashida Manjoo, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, … [Read more...]
THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD TODAY
October 29, 2010 by
THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD TODAY Since the early days of the Industrial Revolution, women in Europe and North America have made considerable progress towards equality with men, although much remains still to be done. Of course, the industrialization of Western countries at first had not improved the status of women, but had degraded them even further by exploiting them and their children in factories as cheap labor. In the preceding relatively prosperous … [Read more...]
