Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. The Campaign aims to collect one million signatures to demand changes to discriminatory laws against women and is a follow-up effort to the peaceful protest of the same aim, which took place a few weeks […]
Ten years after reaching a cooperation agreement, IOM and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have endorsed an updated agreement to address current global challenges on migration issues. The agreement particularly focuses on promoting the human rights of migrants and on combating sexual violence, with special emphasis on migrant girls and women.
Roughly two-thirds of Czech Romanies who were rejected as job seekers see the cause in employers’ racial prejudices, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Romany civic group Dzeno. The remaining one-third feel they failed due to insufficient skills, advanced age or because they don’t have a clean criminal record.
The Pakistani parliament will consider and likely approve a bill that would ease overly strict restrictions applied under Islamic law that make it nearly impossible to prove a woman has been raped. Under the Hadood Ordinance, developed by the former dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, rape victims are convicted of adultery unless they have […]
Three million people a year migrate from developing countries to industrialized nations, a population research group announced 21 August in its annual findings. Almost half of these migrants – 1.4 million people – move to Europe, though the continent is still facing unprecedented population losses from low birth rates. Italy is the world’s second
Berlin is to make entry easier for high-salary foreigners offered jobs in Germany, a government spokeswoman said in Berlin on August 4, after the existing high-skills plan flopped. Germany offers fast-track work visas to anyone winning a job with annual pay of at least 84,000 euros or offering to employ 10 people.
On 16 August, a Czech district court started dealing with what is probably the first complaint of gender discrimination in the Czech labour market. Filed by economist Marie Causevicova, 51, against her employer, the Prazska teplarenska heating utility company. She accused the company of
Like many industrialised countries, France faces the progressive ageing of its population. In this context, promoting active ageing and policies to foster the employability of the over-50s are priority goals. But the number of people taking part in job-related training in France is low compared to other European countries. Moreover,
According to data released in late July by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women do 63 percent of household work. While women dedicate an average of almost 16 hours per week to household tasks such as cleaning and preparing food, men’s contributions add up to less than ten hours weekly.
The United Nations says that women migrants who travel to Britain and other developed countries are put at risk of exploitation and abuse because governments “overlook and ignore” them.
