Residency permits for foreign women citing ‘gender violence’ soar 500 per cent in Spain
Authorisations climbed from 628 in 2017 to 3,758 in 2024, an increase of 498.4 per cent, the data showed.
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Authorisations climbed from 628 in 2017 to 3,758 in 2024, an increase of 498.4 per cent, the data showed.
The latest events in Iran have once again exposed a familiar and uncomfortable pattern in Western politics. Women are beaten, imprisoned, killed.
Spain may be the next country to prohibit the public use of the burqa and the niqab face coverings worn by some Muslim women and girls.
No school in Italy would now be able to include a pupil in a workshop or educational programme on sexuality without the prior and explicit agreement of the student's…
A petition for compartments for women only on Berlin’s public transport network has received more than 15,000 signatures in just nine days.
The Swedish Government has said it planned to criminalise virginity checks, virginity certificates and virginity interventions.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the principle of marital "conjugal duty", as applied in the French Civil Code, violated the court's Article…
Belgium has given sex workers full employment rights, including sick leave, maternity pay and pensions.
Antje Kapek, spokeswoman for transport policy of the Green Party in the Berlin Senate, has said she wanted separate carriages for female passengers in reaction to…
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has stated that Poland is violating women's rights by "unduly restricting…
The European Union has said it was "appalled" by the Taliban's announcement of severe limitations on women's freedom in Afghanistan.
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has come out in support of the Italian boxer who lost an Olympic bout to Imane Khelif, the Algerian fighter who is currently…
Veneto, Italy Luca Zaia, President of Veneto region has said that his region is ready to support a foundation to combat femicide.
Ireland will vote on removing the special protection of women's interests from the country's Constitution, the island's paper of record has confirmed.
In the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, female archaeologists say they are constantly being harassed at work by passers-by.