Search Results for Tag: Discrimination
Gender equality: ‘Battle for fundamental human rights’
Katrin Jakobsdóttir is prime minister of Iceland, and a mother of three
Iceland is often held up as the poster child of gender equality, but as Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir told DW ahead of the 2018 Women Leaders Global Forum, even her country has to keep fighting.
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Stigma or separation: The painful choice facing Myanmar’s single mothers
This photo taken on October 19, 2018 shows an unmarried mother (identity obscured) hanging her baby’s diapers while taking refuge at the Myint Mo Myittar Single Mothers’ Foundation in Yangon.
Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child, Aye Mar has accepted she will have to give up her baby to an orphanage in Myanmar, a country where single mothers are ostracised and deemed a “disgrace”.
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Comments deactivated The fight against breast ironing in Cameroon
It’s an old and painful practice. But even today, young girls in Cameroon have their breasts bound or beaten with stones. A women’s rights group is fighting back against the tradition through education in schools.
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Comments deactivated “I am healed now” says newly-male police constable
Lalit Salve
”Menstruation? … I don’t know.
Perhaps something happened during my teenage years.
I don’t know… Don’t know.”
These hesitant words are spoken by the first police constable in India to have undergone Genital Reconstruction Surgery. Once Lalita, he became Lalit Bhau Salve.
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Comments deactivated “The socio-political system is not conducive for the development of Pakistani girls”
Malala Yousafzai
Young Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai says that “one child, one pen, one book and one teacher can change the world”. Aimen Rubab agrees but points out that problems arise if the child is a girl, the pen is not free, books are not available and teachers are “totally biased against female students”.
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Comments deactivated A Muslim beauty blogger is challenging discrimination in Myanmar
Win Lae Phyu Sin,19-year-old beauty blogger from Myanmar wears her hijab with pride and is busting stereotypes with her videos.
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Comments deactivated From blogger to entrepreneur – an interview with Sabrina Spielberger
The founder of digidip is one of Germany’s most successful female digital entrepreneurs. She spoke to DW’s Manuela Kasper-Claridge about her company and how she got to where she is today.
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