The year in patriarchy: coconut trees, 'childless cat ladies' and crimes against humanity | Arwa Mahdawi

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Many of the same extreme themes from last year have also persisted: anti-abortion activists are still trying to roll back reproductive rights in the US and the horrific situation for women in Iran and Afghanistan has only got worse.
64% : This has made the common abortion pill, mifepristone (generally used as part of a two-drug regimen in medication abortions) a major target for anti-abortion activists.
53% : UN experts have called the Taliban's system of discrimination a "crime against humanity' and, in a groundbreaking move, the Taliban will be taken to the international court of justice for gender discrimination.
43% : UN experts have documented "staggering" amounts of sexual and gender-based violence against girls and women.
23% : None of that seems to matter to a large percentage of the American public who enthusiastically voted Trump in for his "revenge term".
20% : To round off 2024, here are 10 of the biggest - and most absurd - stories from the year in patriarchy: More than 27 women have accused the incoming president of sexual misconduct, and a jury in a civil case last year found Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E Jean Carroll.

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