In this podcast, Council of Europe gender equality expert Anne-Marie Faradji outlines the unfairness of a bias towards men in the government spending at national and local level.
As England and Wales celebrates their highest ever domestic violence conviction rates , Mark Brooks, chairman of the Mankind Initiative, reveals that men now account for one in three victims of abuse.
The applicants want to stay in Sweden and allege that, if deported to Yemen, they face a real risk of being the victims of an honour crime, as they had left their country without the permission of their husband and father.
At its Paris meeting in Paris, the Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination expressed deep concern at “setbacks” to women’s rights in Turkey.
Roma women in Greece face multiple forms of discrimination linked to their condition as women and as Roma: high illiteracy rates, few employment opportunities, poor physical and psychological health, and vulnerable to domestic violence.
