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All posts tagged "world"
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Britain to scrutinise sexual harassment of women in public places
By Adela Suliman | Thomson Reuters Foundation “We want to find out why it happens” LONDON, Jan 15 – A committee of British lawmakers will launch an inquiry on Monday into the sexual harassment of women and...
- Posted January 14, 2018
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Follow Iceland and make it illegal to pay men more than women – experts
By Zoe Tabary | Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON, Jan 3 – Other countries should follow Iceland which has become the first country to make it illegal to pay men more than women, politicians and equal rights campaigners...
- Posted January 7, 2018
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In south India, a 20-year-old survivor of honour killing turns crusader
By Rina Chandran | Thomson Reuters Foundation “I gave testimony against my family because I don’t see them as family, but as criminals who had to be brought to justice” CHENNAI, India, Dec 29 – Kausalya and her...
- Posted December 30, 2017
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220,000 women sexually harassed on public transport in France – study
By Zoe Tabary | Thomson Reuters Foundation “I was spat at, called a whore” LONDON, Dec 21 – More than 220,000 women were sexually harassed on public transport in France over two years, the national crime statistics agency...
- Posted December 21, 2017
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India orders movie moguls to avoid the Weinstein effect
By Roli Srivastava | Thomson Reuters Foundation Very few of cases of sexual harassment are reported to the police in an industry, like Hollywood, that is run by men and operates by its own rules MUMBAI, Dec 14 –...
- Posted December 14, 2017
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Coca Cola, Walmart among global firms joining forces for women’s equality
“The whole agenda would move more quickly if these players were sharing with each other what they were learning” By Lee Mannion | Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s Oxford University has teamed up with nine of the world’s biggest...
- Posted December 4, 2017
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Online abuse silences women and girls, fuels violence, survey shows
By Nellie Peyton | Thomson Reuters Foundation “This is not something that goes away when you log off” LONDON, Nov 20 – Pervasive online abuse and harassment pressure women and girls into censoring themselves on social media and...
- Posted November 21, 2017
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In the wake of Weinstein, some women say Bollywood failing to address harassment
Patriarchy deeply entrenched in Indian film industry By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI, Nov 12 (Reuters) – When Indian actress Divya Unny flew into the southern state of Kerala in 2015, she thought it was for a business meeting...
- Posted November 12, 2017
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Ivorian artist puts a twist on #MeToo: she says it with her hair
“I hope women everywhere wake up and revolt” By Nellie Peyton DAKAR, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A 21-year-old artist in Ivory Coast has found an eye-catching new way to draw attention to the #MeToo campaign...
- Posted November 6, 2017
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After ‘Me Too’, ‘scary’ personal conversations about sexual assault
Millions of women around the world use the hashtag #MeToo to share their own stories of abuse on social media By Melissa Fares and John Whitesides | Thomson Reuters Foundation Oct 30 (Reuters) – After reading a...
- Posted October 30, 2017