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Aïssat said that the police took them to the Mohammadia police station and held them until 5 p.m. He said that the police did not tell them the reasons for their arrest, and released them without charge.

Algeria’s constitution guarantees the right to freedom of assembly. Amendments, entered into force on March 7, 2016, include a provision that, “The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed within the framework of the law, which sets forth how it is to be exercised” (article 49).

appears to go into labour outside Kafr al-Dawar Public Hospital. Two nurses later run outside, duck under the sheet and emerge with a bab

video was a ploy by the woman’s family to discredit the facility.

provincial health minister had suspended the hospital director pending an investigation.

questioned the state’s commitment to the health of its population of 85 million.

“When hospitals let women give birth in the street, it raises questions of government negligence, no matter how much the government flaunts its commitment to women’s rights,

Egyptian healthcare system were high out-of-pocket expenses required from patients and low government spending,

“Look at the human rights here, where a woman has to give birth in the street when there’s a hospital right there

urged the couple to go to Alexandria, around 30 km (20 miles) away, for treatment instead.

insisted that the hospital provide an ambulance, security officers removed the pregnant woman from the building and she went into labour while waiting for a taxi.

shows her lying on the pavement just metres away from the hospital beside a stretche

everal women who appear to be comforting her, as well as her husband and various bystanders

government has promised to improve services.

hospital denies that it asked the woman to leave.

We do not allow any patients to be turned away

“Those who were with the patient chose to have the baby outside in order to videotape it and defame the hospital.”

In Africa and South Asia for example, boys remain 1.55 times more likely to complete secondary education than girls, according to World Bank data.

Even when girls make it into the classroom they still “continue to face particular risk in chaotic conflict settings,”

n Pakistan, for example, the Taliban has declared war on girls' education, and frequently attacks educational institutions

“They don’t translate into greater equality in the labor market,” said Sarah Gammage, director of gender, economic empowerment and livelihoods at the International Center for Research on Women. “Around the world women have disproportionately been part of the informal economy.”

hey are typically responsible for providing care services for family members, Gammage said. Other duties include child rearing, cooking, and other household chores. It is work for which they are not paid. Women perform three times more unpaid work than men, according to the U.N.’s 2015 Human Development Report.

eing able to make decisions, such as voting, owning land, and deciding whom to marry “is where we see the most significant difference between the least developed and developed countries,” said Varia.

In Saudi Arabia, women are not permitted to drive and cannot open bank accounts without their husbands' permissio

Uganda forbids women to gain permanent custody of children after a divorce,

Honor killings, the traditional practice that allows the slaying of a family member who is believed to have brought dishonor on a family, claims thousands of women’s lives every year in South and Central Asia.