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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signs tough-on-crime legislation
By Sara Cline On March 5, 2024 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Eight recently passed bills, including legislation that will treat all 17-year-olds who commit crimes as adults and harsher penalties for carjackings, were signed by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday. Spurred by violent crime in Louisiana cities and a new tough-on-crime governor, the GOP-dominated…
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Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat
Almost 45% of detention facilities on US mainland suffered rise in hazardous heat days between 1982 and 2020, study says By Nina Lakhani On March 5, 2024 Deadly heat is threatening the lives of America’s ageing incarcerated population, who are trapped in increasingly hot and humid conditions as the climate emergency escalates, new research has…
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Backlash against women’s rights threatening progress, says UN chief
By Adla Massoud On March 8, 2024 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday that a “backlash” against women’s rights was threatening progress around the world. “The global crises we face are hitting women and girls hardest – from poverty and hunger to climate disasters, war and terror,” Mr Guterres said in remarks marking International Women’s Day.…
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It’s International Women’s Day: How women’s rights fared in the past year
By Victoria Bisset, Adela Suliman, and Naomi Schanen On March 8, 2024 LONDON — It’s International Women’s Day. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres has urged faster action to achieve gender equality, amid what he described as “a fierce backlash against women’s rights.” “Billions of women and girls face marginalization, injustice and discrimination, while the persistent…
Read MoreOrganised backlash unravels progress in women’s rights: research
By AFP On March 8, 2024 Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women’s rights, the latest “backlash” in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women’s Day on Friday. Organised and politicised, the counter-movement unpicks abortion rights, fuels online hate and harassment and encourages domestic violence, researchers say.…
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Lightfoot and Martinez call for women to have reproductive health privacy in court records
By A.D. Quig On March 12, 2024 CHICAGO — With one week to go until the March 19 primary, Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez brought out former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help her unveil a new push to redact and seal court records that mention a woman’s reproductive health, an event Martinez’s Democratic…
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When Companies Invest In Women, Everybody Wins
By Priya Krishnan On March 12, 2024 According the International Women’s Day website, the goal of the 2024 #InspireInclusion campaign is to “collectively forge a more inclusive world for women.” They want everyone to “imagine a gender equal world that is free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination, as well as diverse, equitable and inclusive.” While I…
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Stamping out police sexism: Sign up to our expert International Women’s Day panel event
By Lauren MacDougall On February 21, 2024 To mark International Women’s Day, The Independent is bringing together a panel of experts to discuss how police forces in the UK are tackling violence against women and attempting to stamp out institutionalised sexism. Three years on from the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard by Met Police officer Wayne…
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Another executive at Japan’s top oil firm is fired for sexual harassment as #MeToo awareness grows
By the Associated Press On February 22, 2024 TOKYO — The head of a renewable energy subsidiary of Japan’s top oil company, Eneos Holdings, has been fired for sexual harassment, the companies announced Wednesday, as awareness of the #MeToo movement grows in the country. Japan Renewable Energy Corp. said in a statement it dismissed chairperson…
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