Countries: Serbia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Negative media campaigns and reporting against representatives of civil society hinder their work towards the advancement of women’s rights" (10). "[C]ases of alleged intimidation or reprisals against civil society activists are [not] duly investigated" (10).

Countries: D R Congo
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"[W]omen human rights defenders suffer double discrimination, violence and prejudice, both in the family and in society, and are exposed to expulsion from work and divorce" (14). "[S]ome provisions in the draft laws related to non-profit organizations, human rights defenders, counter-terrorism, public demonstrations, freedom of the press and access to information that are under review before Parliament might negatively impact women’s civil and political rights" (14).

Countries: Switzerland
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"'All I will say is that he has a lot of money and you don't want trouble in court . . . I would be in big trouble if I shared some of the secrets I have learned to keep'" (para 15).

Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2, SEGI-PRACTICE-3, ADDL-DATA-1

"Just as the kingdom announced that women could drive, for example, the women who’d campaigned tirelessly and publicly for precisely this right were arrested and locked away. The family of one of the most prominent driving activists, Loujain al-Hathloul, said publicly that she was tortured and sexually harassed while in custody; human rights investigators say others were also abused" (para 23).

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The court found her guilty of 'encouraging corruption and prostitution' as well as 'assembly and collusion'" (para 3). "As many as 18,210 protesters are believed to have been arrested" (para 10).

Countries: Iran
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"The crackdown by security forces against the protest movement has left hundreds dead, and the government has threatened harsh punishment for dissent, including executions. Rights groups say that at least 400 people have been killed since the protests began, including 50 minors, and the United Nations has said that about 14,000 people have been arrested. The government says at least 30 members of the security forces have been killed"(para 25-26).

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Facing public criticism from conservatives, Razi later apologized and stopped pursuing the ban" (10).

Countries: China
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"That makes any woman still fighting for her rights potentially subversive, particularly at a time when Xi is openly distrustful of any civil organising" (para. 16). "The CCP has always had an uneasy relationship with feminists, in part because Communists claim to have liberated women themselves. Mao’s slogan 'women hold up half the sky' became famous as half-tribute, half-promise to China’s women" (para. 17). "There have been repeated crackdowns on feminists, including arrests of women protesting against issues that do not obviously challenge the political system, such as sexual harassment. China’s #MeToo movement has made little progress" (para. 18). "Peng went missing for weeks after making her accusations on social...more

Countries: South Korea
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

“'He got very angry, and I realised that if I continued to fight this, the harassment would get worse, so I started washing the towels,' Yuna says. But because she had complained, she was marked” (para 3). “What tipped her over the edge was not just the abuse, which grew steadily worse, but the lack of support from her female colleagues - those in their 20s, like her. 'It's like this everywhere, don't make a fuss,' they had pleaded” (para 5-6). The negative reaction these women have towards discussing gender issues may indicate histories of violence or harassment as a result (ET - CODER COMMENT). “Hoping to fight this was...more

Countries: United States
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Discrimination in the workplace against people who are pregnant is not a new phenomenon. In fact, this has been an ever-present sickness of capitalism and the workplace, systems that were not designed to support pregnancy" (para 7). If pregnant women are discriminated because of "an ever-present sickness" within capitalism, then it may indicate supporters of pregnant workers were met with the same hostility (ET - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: China
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2, SEGI-PRACTICE-2, SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Since 2015, women's rights in China have been rolled back under Xi Jinping, starting with the arrest of five female activists for 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' after planning a multi-city protest aimed at bringing an end to sexual harassment on public transport" (para 10).

Countries: Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

Iran holds the record as the top executioner of women. Amnesty International recorded that 16 women were known to have been executed in 2020 in the world – nine of them were executed in Iran. Other countries executing women last year were Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Oman executing four, two, and one woman respectively.

Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"[T]he activities of some non-governmental organizations and the suspension or closure of several such organizations that work for women’s rights and gender equality [are restricted]… [There is no] environment that is, de jure and de facto, safe and in which organizations working for women’s rights and gender equality participate systematically in the development and implementation of relevant legislation and policies" (4). This indicates that these organisations do not have a safe space to express the fight for their cause (MV-coder comment). "[There is] insufficient technical and financial resources provided to the Ombudsman to effectively carry out its mandate relating to the promotion and protection of women’s rights and gender equality"...more

Countries: Cambodia
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"[There is a] stigmatization of women and girls who submit complaints about violations of their rights by raising awareness among the general public of those rights" (4). "[There have been] reports of harassment and intimidation of women human rights defenders, trade union workers and land and environmental activists, as well as members of the political opposition party, which was dissolved in November 2017... [W]omen have not been able to organize and participate in International Women’s Day marches since 2015 and women human rights defenders have reportedly been subjected to increasing scrutiny and restrictions on their rights by the authorities, including arbitrary detention for their legitimate activities, which has created an...more

Countries: Maldives
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"As the 2011 Human Rights Baseline Survey has indicated, a significant proportion of Maldivian population (one-third) believe that human rights and the principles of Islam are mutually supportive. Nonetheless, another one-third of the population believe the opposite, with women respondents more likely to fall within this latter category, in part because many advances on gender equality have faced backlash among religious leaders in recent years." (11-12).