Book bans increased by 33% in the 2022-23 academic school year in the United States with 3,362 cases of book bans as compared to 2,532 cases in the previous year. A book ban is defined as any action that restricts access to or removes a book from classrooms and libraries, whether permanently or temporarily while … Read more
Since 2003, the Iraq government has continuously promoted “anti-gender” campaigns, sentiments, and policies. The most recent evidence of this promotion is an official instruction that bans the use of the term “gender” in all public communications as well as recommends replacing the word “homosexuality” with “sexual deviance”. Iraqi feminist activists have been insulted in the … Read more
Mexico, a country with a historically patriarchal social system, will likely elect a woman to office as president for the first time in the nation’s history when they hold elections next June. Though Mexico has typically been a multi-party system, including the Morena, the PAN (National Action Party), the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), and the … Read more
Tunisian officials have allegedly driven and left more than 1,300 migrants to Tunisia (from Cameroon, Sudan, and other African countries) in the Libyan desert without food or water over the past few years, though it is not known for certain how long these “deportations” have been happening. The migrants in the most recent reported incident … Read more