UK: ‘dozens’ of girls subjected to breast-ironing
An African practice of “ironing” a girl’s chest with a hot stone to delay breast formation is spreading in the UK, with anecdotal evidence of dozens of recent cases, a…
China, WTO will start talks on e-commerce rules
(Xinhua) – China plans to partner with 76 WTO members to initiate negotiations on trade-related aspects of electronic commerce by building on existing WTO agreements, the Ministry of Commerce said….
The worst country in the world for women elected to a leadership post at the UN agency for the empowerment of women
Yemen, ranked 10 years in a row as the worst country in the world for women (in WEF Gender Gap Report), has been elected to a leadership post at the…
1 every 12 Christians live where Christianity is forbidden, report finds
Approximately 215 million Christians now experience high, very high, or extreme levels of persecution; that means 1 in 12 Christians live where Christianity is “illegal, forbidden, or punished,” according to…