Feminism
- Feminism, Global development, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, Workers' rights, World news
Can promises on gender equality made in Australia help a 16-year-old Indian cigarette maker with no toilet?
The Melbourne declaration aims to direct funding and power to those most overlooked and affected by injustice.…
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Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagon…
- Activism, Afghanistan, Culture, Family, Father's Day, Feminism, Film, Gender, Global development, India, Life and style, Malala Yousafzai, Sexual violence, Short films, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’
Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice a…
- Asia Pacific, China, Feminism, Sexual harassment, Society, Violence against women and girls, World news
Professor sacked over abuse claims in rare win for China’s #MeToo movement
Swift response by Renmin University to student’s post creates shockwave in a country where accusers are often …
- Activism, Culture, Documentary films, Feminism, Film, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
This Stained Dawn review – Pakistani feminists’ courageous fight for their rights
Anam Abbas’s documentary records the preparations for and dangerous execution of a countrywide rally against p…
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Professor accused of sexually assaulting teenager as China’s #metoo movement struggles forward
Victim alleges in viral social media post that assault 11 years ago resulted in her becoming pregnant and havi…
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Chizuko Ueno: the Japanese writer stoking China’s feminist underground
Ueno’s books are hugely popular in China, where a crackdown on large-scale organising has stifled a nascent fe…
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I stopped relying on other people to make plans – as a woman in Pakistan, that’s no small thing | Anmol Irfan
My new independence has been met with everything from curiosity to awkward laughter. But this is about me, not…
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‘I decided I could do better than them’: the women taking on Japan’s male-dominated politics
Female candidates in the local elections across the country this weekend face one of the world’s toughest glas…
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China’s ‘rotten girls’ are escaping into erotic fiction about gay men
Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn’t gon…
- Feminism, Global development, India, International Women's Day, Society, South and Central Asia, Women
We don’t need discount vouchers for International Women’s Day. We need equal rights | Nilanjana Bhowmick
International Women’s Day is too often dumbed down into a mere marketing opportunity that capitalises feminism…
- Abortion, Dalits, Feminism, Global development, Health, India, Inequality and development, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health
Feminists in India applaud their abortion rights – but they don’t extend to Dalit women | Shreeja Rao
The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any…
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South Korea’s poisonous gender politics a test for next president
As election campaign enters final stages, the two leading candidates have been accused of pandering to sexism …
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‘Gunmen were looking for my mum’: daughter of Afghan ex-radio boss
Farkhunda’s sister and two brothers have disabilities and left their wheelchairs behind when fleeing a Taliban…
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Chinese uproar as state TV host calls gold-medal winner a ‘manly woman’
Shot put champion Gong Lijiao quizzed about boyfriends and settling down into ‘a woman’s life’The Chinese stat…