The draft law would provide for the legal termination of pregnancy up until the 14th week |
Committed crime envisages from 5 to 9 years of imprisonment |
Born in Soviet Georgia in 1941, Nona Gaprindashvili began playing chess at age five. By 37, she was a grandmaster. The Thomson Reuters Foundation speaks to one of the legends of the chess game |
Opposition candidate Maia Sandu has won Moldova's presidential runoff with 56% of the vote, the country's central election commission says. Sandu is in favor of closer ties to the European Union |
The committed crime envisages from 11 to 15 years of imprisonment |
Leaders call for action as latest data shows European women face an average 14% pay gap as compared to male workers |
Widespread outrage among women and others greeted the abortion ruling which bans terminations due to foetal defects |
Pandemic risks slowing women’s progress still further as unpaid caring duties grow and paid work shrinks |
Abortion in Poland will be banned in the case of foetal abnormalities and will be legal only in the case of rape, incest or a threat to the woman's health |
The report on measures implemented by Government of Georgia against COVID-19 says nothing about consultations with gender experts, women entrepreneurs, etc. throughout the drafting of the aforementioned anti-crisis policy document, which in turn is problematic and raises legitimate questions about the gender sensitivity of the action plan itself.
Three new projects implemented by civil society partners will work across the country with victims of domestic violence, IDPs, and persons with disabilities