What’s Current: Women’s rights activists in Pakistan continue to rally for International Women’s Day despite violent threats

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  • Women’s rights activists in Pakistan will continue to rally for International Women’s Day despite threats of censorship and violence from religious extremist leaders.
  • Women’s rights activists in South Korea are being met with extreme backlash, as the country’s presidential candidates campaign to support men who claim South Korea’s growing feminist movement is discriminating against them.
  • Evidence put forward by the SNP compares women concerned about gender identity reforms and sex self-identification to racist segregationists in 1950’s America.
  • France 24 reports women and girls in Houthi rebel-controlled areas of Yemen are having their human rights stripped as they bear the brunt of the country’s seven-year civil war.
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.