#Women

Persecuted Christians. Open Doors Report on gender-specific persecution: “Daily pressure affecting men and women”

Open Doors released the 2023 Gender-Related Persecution Report (GSRP) on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day. Sexual violence and…

International Women’s Day: EU Commission, “rights denied across the world. Russian army using sexual violence as a weapon of war”

Fatemeh Rezaei, 11, died of poisoning. Azar Karimi: “UN, shed light and take a stand”

“An 11-year-old girl named Fatemeh Rezaei has lost her life as a result of the barbaric poisonings” that have been…

Germany: Diocese of Passau provides personal counselling to the bereaved

On the front lines yet hardly acknowledged. Sadly, the risk of poverty in Europe still has a woman’s face

Women exchange views on how COVID-19 impacted on their lives. COMECE and the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe…

Violence against women: entrenched in the posture of a given culture, not individual wickedness

Violence against women has always borne the legacy of a culture that considers women as inferior to adult men, both…

Violence against women: EU Commission, EU helpline for victims. Number to call is 116 016

Violence against women: Pejcinovic Buric (CoE), “rape used as a weapon in Ukraine”. A call to join the Istanbul Convention

Comece-Fafce: women after the pandemic, an event to investigate the work-life balances disrupted by the lockdown

EU Parliament: Mahsa Amini, debate in Strasbourg on protests for women’s rights in Iran

Synod: Austria, results of national consultation. Women in the Church, participation of lay people, clericalism, sexual morality