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NAGPUR: Women in India, despite given the right to property, find it hard to get a share in property. The ignorance of right based perspective or the unthinkable disobedience of gender inequality is the most difficult challenge in front of the persons working in the judicial system, said human right analyst and lawyer Asim Sarode on Friday.

The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage.

Human Rights Watch urged Iran on Saturday to lift restrictions on women attending university and enrolling in certain academic fields.

Mukhtar Mai was brutally gang-raped on the orders of her village council. everybody expected her to commit suicide, as is often the case after rape in Pakistan. She captured the imagination of millions around the world. She is one of Pakistan's most prominent rights activists, and she has since become an icon for women's rights in Pakistan.

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Gender equality is guaranteed in the Cambodian Constitution which prohibits all forms of discrimination against women (Article 45). Both men and women should have equal opportunity to exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

The human rights of women throughout the Middle East and North Africa are systematically denied by each of the countries in the region, despite the diversity of their political systems. Many governments routinely suppress civil society by restricting freedom of the press, expression, and assembly.

This article shows how Australia is trying its best to aid the Women's Right department and introduce financial aids, safety, violence prevention and granting more space on the parliamentary seats to be granted more say in decision making. It is noteworthy how they are doing this because they know that in order for a country to reach it's full potential, it has to maximize the use of human resources in the country. 

This article shows how despite high literacy rate of females in China, the women face another obstacle; fair wages in the work place and promotion. The discrimination also occurs in the politics, with a very low percentage of the delegates being women. It shows how there is a long way to go until full equity in rights for women. 

Germany has pledged to take in 5,000 refugees from Syria. But they still haven't arrived. Human rights organizations complain that the EU's refugee policy is marked by a lack of solidarity.

Now there are 1 million child refugees from Syria. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23803308

Some facts about the refugees and where they stay. Worth a look. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23801200