Tag: Women
Pope appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla as Vatican’s first female prefect
Sr. Brambilla was the second woman to be appointed Secretary of a Vatican Dicastery, following the 2021 appointment of Sr. Alessandra Smerilli
Synod rules out women deacons; meetings called to be ‘laboratories of...
"There is still no room for a positive decision by the magisterium regarding the access of women to the diaconate"
Christian family faces threats to drop gang-rape charges in Pakistan
The police recovered the girl on September 5, and a medical examination confirmed she had been gang-raped and physically tortured
Toxic, deadly, cheap: Life for women gold miners in the Philippines
One in three of the illegal mining workforce is female - and women are 90 times more at risk of dying on the job than men
Nuns help empower women through handicrafts
"These products don't have much demand in Bangladesh, but people of Europe and Canada like these very much"
Southeast Asian working mothers struggle for work-life balance, survey reveals
About 44 percent of those surveyed wish for greater recognition of the challenges faced by working mothers.
In Asia Pacific, rise in public debt is hurting women’s access...
Gabriela assailed how Filipino women have been suffering due to decades of privatization and low prioritization of public health care
What stands behind Central Asia’s ugly problem with domestic violence
Instead of registering complaints from survivors and launching investigations, police often try to reconcile them with aggressors
Don’t forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged
Climate-linked disasters tend to exacerbate women's unpaid care work burden, for example, forcing them to walk further to find water.
Minority of East Asian adults view childbearing as societal duty for...
The decision to have children should lie with women, moving away from traditional beliefs about societal obligations.
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