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Sarah Hegazi (Arabic: سارة حجازي; 1 October 1989 – 14 June 2020; also rendered Hegazy or Higazy) was an Egyptian writer, LGBTQ activist, and socialist. [1] [2] She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in Egypt for three months after flying a rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in 2017 in Cairo. [3]
The number of abortions in the United States is on the rise two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, but shifting policies are changing the way women access them.
Leila Hassan Howe (born 13 June 1948) is a British editor and activist, who was a founding member of the Race Today Collective in 1973, having previously worked for the Institute of Race Relations. She became editor of the Race Today journal in 1986.
Potty parity in the United States refers to laws and policies granting women the right to equitable access to restrooms in public places and workplaces. Spearheaded by women workers, potty parity has long been a pillar of both the feminist movement and the labor movement. [1]
Maine passed abortion-related legislation that said women have the right to "terminate a pregnancy before viability". [296] [297] Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. is a case in which the Supreme Court clarified the definition of a "hostile" or "abusive" work environment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Leila Ahmed (Arabic: لیلى أحمد; born 29 May 1940) [1] is an Egyptian-American scholar of women's studies and religion. [2] In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam , which is regarded as a pioneering historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies.
Article 14 provides protections for rural women and their special problems, ensuring the right of women to participate in development programs, "to have access to adequate health care facilities," "to participate in all community activities," "to have access to agricultural credit" and "to enjoy adequate living conditions." [5]
Leila Zerrougui (born 1956) is an Algerian legal expert on human rights and administration of justice. She has served as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUSCO ) [ 1 ] since January 2018.