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What‌ ‌happened‌ ‌in‌ November 2021?‌ ‌

Beach handball: the bikini will no longer be mandatory for women players. In the last months, there have been a lot of discussions around the sexualisation of women in sports because of the very unequal clothes rules that can be found in the beach handball regulations for instance. DRC: Women have to raise funds to […]

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What‌ ‌happened‌ ‌in‌ September‌ 2021?‌

Mexico:  Abortion has been decriminalised after that the Mexican Supreme Court declared it hybride punishment for abortions unconstitutional.  The statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico City will be replaced by one of an indigeneous woman because the mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says that she doesn’t want to forget the history around Christopher Columbus but that she […]

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What happened in August 2021?

South Kurdistan: Yazidi women who were detained by IS seven years ago are still fighting for justice. The Iraqi government passed legislation that qualifies IS’s treatment of Yazidis as genocide. The Yazidi Female Survivor Law, meanwhile, demands the Iraqi government to compensate Yazidi female IS survivors. Afghanistan: Since the Taliban retook control in Afghanistan, women […]

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What happened in March 2021?

Nawal El Saadawi died at the age of 89 on the 21st of March. She is well known for the many feminist books she wrote. She was especially reputed for her fight against female genital mutilation (FGM). She was originally a doctor from Cairo and later became a novelist for some newspapers. In addition, she […]

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What happened in February 2021?

UK: the British selection of Guide Michelin awarded Hélène Darroze and Clare Smyth three stars. This is the first time that two women are awarded three stars simultaneously by the Guide Michelin, which is the highest endowment for restaurants, and which has only been given to five women only: Anne-Sophie Pic (Valence, France), Elena Arzak […]

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Which party says what? – Standpunten voor de verkiezingen

Scroll naar beneden voor Nederlands! As the elections are coming up we looked into how feminist topics are represented in the different party programs. The many parties (see the whole list here) on the same political spectrum often have similar viewpoints on many topics, though differ in the main focus of its program or in […]