India: Protective Laws Fall Short for Women Charged with Witchcraft

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Correspondent Shuriah Niazi – WNN Features Chhattisgarh, India: Mita Bai, 34, will never forget the morning of May 6, 2005. It was 8 a.m. in the morning when a group of three men and six women came to her house with their allegations, branding her as, “a witch.” As an attack against her broke out, she [...]

Iran Women Rights Defenders Continue Undeterred by Prison Detention

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ELAHE AMANI – WNN Features Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of government crackdown and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders. In the process of finding a new transitional global identity, Iran state authorities [...]

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