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“Azaadi!” – or “freedom!” – women chanted on the streets of major cities across Pakistan on Saturday, as they protested police handling of a shocking rape of a woman by multiple assailants.
A police chief’s attempt to blame the survivor of the assault prompted protests demanding not only reform of police response to sexual violence cases, but for women’s rights in general.
Pakistan’s government should take these demands seriously.
Women and girls in Pakistan face abuses from “honor violence,” danger on the way to school, abuses in prison, denial of care in hospitals, and sexual harassment in the workplace.
They will not have the freedom they are entitled to – to study, work, or live – until the government does more to protect their rights.
European governments should urgently relocate nearly 13,000 men, women, and children left homeless by fires inside Moria camp on the Greek Aegean island of Lesbos.
The experts concluded that they had “reasonable grounds to believe that both the President and the Ministers of Interior and of Defence ordered or contributed to the commission of the crimes.
South Africa might be the place of Keshia's birth and the only country where she has ever lived, but she cannot call it home. How xenophobia has robbed Keshia of her sense of belonging.
When protests flared up across Belarus over the hotly contested August 9 presidential elections, Ales N. joined one of the first demonstrations in the streets of Minsk. Two days later, riot police stopped him on his way home from work. And that’s how it all began.
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