A woman casts her vote at a polling station in the southeastern Turkey Kurdish stronghold of Diyarbakir on March 31, 2019 during the local elections to elect the mayors for 30 large metropolitan cities, 51 provincial capitals and 922 districts. Ilyas AKENGIN / AFP

What we need to learn about gender parity in Turkey’s Kurdish municipalities

As the number of women in politics increase, more women’s voices will be heard: the example of co-mayorship in Turkey is a first step.
L'Irlande a approuvé fin 2018 une mesure historique en légalisant l'avortement, suite à un référendum national sur le droit d'avorter. Georges Hodan/Publicdomainepcitures

Avorter « en ligne » pour contourner les législations restrictives

Au milieu des cacophonies sociétales et législatives sur l’avortement, les femmes ont désormais des solutions clefs en main : l’accès aux médicaments abortifs les plus récents par le biais d’Internet.
Women in Mexico City carry a banner reading “Legal and safe abortion across Mexico” during the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25, 2018). Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP

Is the future of abortion online?

While the abortion debate continues worldwide, even in countries where it has long been legal, new drugs and telemedicine services could provide access to safe abortion beyond borders and laws.
Women hold signs as they take part in a demonstration against government plans to ban or limit the practice of abortion in Turkey on 22 June 2012, in Istanbul. Reuters

Debate: When abortion is ‘haram’, women find strategies to claim their rights

Abortion appears to be illegal and clandestine in large parts of the Muslim world. Yet, women continue to challenge the status quo and archaic laws through their daily practices and activism.

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