Qatar: Male Guardianship Severely Curtails Women’s Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A girl and a woman fly a kite along the promenade by the Doha corniche in the Qatari capital on March 16, 2020. © 2020 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut, March 29, 2021) – Qatar’s discriminatory male guardianship system denies women the right to make many key decisions about their lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 94-page report, “‘Everything I Have to Do is Tied to a Man’: Women and Qatar’s Male Guardianship Rules,” analyzes official male guardianship rules and practices. Human Rights Watch found that women in Qatar must obtain permission…

Read complete article

~	AI companions can relieve loneliness – but here are 4 red flags to watch for in your chatbot ‘friend’

~	Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready

~	Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death

~	Photos are everywhere. What makes a good one?

~	Loblaws boycott: What consumer psychology can tell us about the success of consumer activism

~	Vietnam: False Claims on Labor Rights

~	Philippines: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Red-Tagging’

~	UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN POLICING: AN ONLINE COURSE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND PRACTITIONERS

~	Paris 2024 Olympics: How the Games are being used to marginalize the most vulnerable

~	Why you should expect to pay more tourist taxes – even though the evidence for them is unclear