Monetary Incentive to End Child Marriage in Indian State is Successful

One in seven girls in developing countries is married before their 15th birthday, usually against her will. Across the globe, more than 60 million girls find themselves innocent victims as child brides, despite the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulation that 18 is the minimum age for marriage. While many countries have adhered [...]

Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico Face Threats, Violence

A Background Paper by Andrea Medina Rosas and Laura Carlsen I. INTRODUCTION Mexico is facing a major human rights and humanitarian crisis. Fifty thousand people have been murdered in the war on drugs just since 2007. Thousands more have been displaced, orphaned and forcibly disappeared. Mexican society is divided by fear between those who welcome [...]

Four prisoners executed in Iran: Three hanged publicly

Three prisoners were hanged publicly in two Iranian towns yesterday 13. December and one prisoner was hanged today, reported the Iranian state media. Two prisoners hanged publicly in south-western Iran: Two men were hanged publicly in the town of Rostam (Fars province, southern Iran) yesterday morning (Tuesday December 13), reported the state run Iranian news [...]

ALERT: Spate of Attacks on Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Mexican human rights defenders have been under attack over the past weeks. The murders of Nepomuceno Moreno of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD), whose son was forcibly disappeared apparently by government security forces in Sonora; and Trinidad de la Cruz, leader of the autonomous, indigenous community of Santa Maria Ostula, Michoacan; [...]

Woman in S.-Arabia executed for ‘practising sorcery’

An executioner in the northern province of Jawf in Saudi Arabia has beheaded Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar on Monday for “practising witchcraft and sorcery,” the interior ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. It is not clear how many women have been executed in Saudi-Arabia, but another woman was beheaded in [...]

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