After Emma Watson, actress and United Nations (UN) Goodwill Ambassador, gave a speech at the UN on September 30, the topic of gender equality has avalanched back into social media. More particularly, it is raising awareness about the UN’s HeForShe campaign, the Women Solidarity Movement for Gender Equality. The campaign was developed by UN Women … Continue reading
A doctor in rural Fuping County in China’s Shaanxi Province has received a suspended death sentence for selling seven infants into child-trafficking. The sentencing court has announced that while working as an obstetrician at the Fuping Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, the doctor, Zhang Shuxia “fabricate[d] reports about the infants, saying they had suffered from … Continue reading
Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old child-activist from the war-torn Swat Valley, Pakistan, was shot in the head and neck and nearly killed by Taliban soldiers on her way home from school in October of 2011. Although Malala had led an active campaign championing women’s rights to education worldwide since 2008 and had her experiences featured in … Continue reading
It is an embarrassment to admit that we live in a society when we still cannot prevent sexual harassment and abuse. If anything, it is a pervading phenomenon that increasingly provides news material for sensationalist media. More importantly, rape is a serious issue on which the judicial system greatly lags. In April, an article appeared … Continue reading
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