A leading female judge from Afghanistan, Fawzia Amini, has been honoured with a prestigious international human rights award for continuing to advocate for the rights of women and girls in her home country. Following the events of last year in her home country, she had to be evacuated to the UK/
Thousands of Afghans are still having to wait for an appointment to apply for a German visa to join their families, who have already left the country. The security situation as well as human rights in Afghanistan have worsened since the August 2021 takeover by the Taliban.
The Turin-based fashion startup "Colori Vivi" (Bright Colors) offers training and a job to migrant and Italian women. The atelier's spring-summer 2022 collection's clothes are made from fabrics donated by major international fashion houses.
German authorities last week deported an Iranian woman and her teenage daughter, leaving the girl's father behind. He now faces a dilemma: Should he fight to bring his wife and daughter back, or follow them to the land they fled more than a decade ago?
A report on the economic integration of migrants in Europe has found that women migrants face discrimination in the European labor market. Half of the immigrant women in Italy are unemployed, the researchers say.
The German human rights organization Pro Asyl published a public appeal for help on behalf of 33 women's rights activists in Afghanistan. The organization pleaded for the women to be accepted immediately by the German government without further delay.
UNICEF has released a report shedding light on the negative impacts of the pandemic on migrant women in Italy. It said discrimination already linked to gender and migration, combined with the challenges imposed by COVID-19, had increased the likelihood that migrant women in Italy will suffer violence.
On the occasion of Women's Day, various NGOs are shining a light on the issue of domestic violence among female migrant and refugee populations. One initiative in Athens highlights how it is actively helping to rescue women from abusive partners.
Two Nigerian migrants have taken a case against Italy and Libya to a UN Committee. The two women, with the help of a legal rights association in Italy, claim that Italy and Libya failed to protect their human rights as women and left them at risk of trafficking, exploitation and abuse.
Being a woman and a foreigner proved to be a source of increased vulnerability in Italy during the pandemic. New figures show there was an unusually high decline in employment in 2020, primarily among foreigners, with women penalized the most.
Forced to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, members of the Afghan women's youth football team and their families have sought refuge in Portugal and are back training in the Lisbon suburbs.
The Geo Barents rescue ship, run by the medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), docked in a Sicilian port on Wednesday and disembarked the 60 migrants it had rescued just over a week earlier.