With support from her family, especially her mother, Shafiei dabbled in motorcycling for a few years before pursuing the sport professionally. “I used to borrow my brother’s bike and ride in the city stealthily. It was such fun,” she said. She saved money from her work as an accounta...
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China has inked agreement with the UN migration agency (IOM) for 1 million U.S. dollar of multi-sector assistance that will support IOM efforts to help internally displaced persons, vulnerable communities and returnees in Somalia. Belt and Road Initiative brings win-win results The just-concluded...
Among those groups, about 15 percent of millennials said they were sexually inactive, compared with just 6 percent from Generation X, according to the study. Researchers used data from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative sample of nearly 27,000 American adults. ...
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Each is dedicated to the empowerment of women – from the ones with a global reach to the smallest grass roots movements that focus-in on intimate groups of women and lift them by sheer will and financing cobbled together by — well, women. But the intellectual empowerment that led to ...
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Leaflet headed ‘Votes for Women’, probably dating from 1910. settng out the contents of the Conciliation Bill, which had passed its Second Reading in July 1910, and explaining details,such as which groups of women would be enfranchised under tis terms. Printed by Baines and Scarsbrook, 75...
A near-total ban on abortion in Poland has led to an increase in the number of Poles heading across the border to Ukraine. For several years, private abortion clinics in... Read More Analysis In Ukraine, legislation to combat domestic violence needs societal support Christian Mamo The long...
there is little to indicate a major change in the near future”. Other academics have criticised the current approach for its slow pace and failure to deal with the deep-rootedness of gender inequality as well as the incremental nature of reforms over a lengthy timeframe (Gatrell and Swan, ...