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Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice and bringing up strong daughtersThe day Ranjit’s daughter was born, he distributed sweets to the entire village – not just because he was thril…
続きを読むThe city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage, which politicians say is a mark of the country bucking global trends to stand behind its womenDuring last week’s tense debate over whether the Pakistan senate should pass a bill banning child marri…
続きを読むDestroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O’Reilly reports that the war service of her mother was not recognised for extra pension rights, as “no records were available for [the Women’s Royal…
続きを読むIn India, as elsewhere, ‘menopenalisation’ means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider society“If I take another pay cut, I might as well start working pro bono,” I joked with a friend recently, during another brutal round of job …
続きを読むHundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in AfghanistanThree Afghan women who were brutally flogged in public by the Taliban after being accused of “moral crimes” have bravely spoken out about …
続きを読むWorld now in era of repressive regimes’ impunity, climate inaction and unchecked corporate power, says reportThe first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have “supercharged” a global rollback of human rights, pushing the world towards an authoritari…
続きを読むFears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced to close ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babiesMore than 200 health facilities r…
続きを読むOne of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselvesThis is a portrait of Praween Devi, a woman I met in 2019 through a local organisation while …
続きを読むPeter and Barbie Reynolds were detained in Bamiyan provice for ‘teaching mothers parenting with children’The Taliban have arrested a British couple in their 70s for “teaching mothers parenting with children”.Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75…
続きを読むAs one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the mediaWhen the Taliban began marching towards cities across Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Alia*, a…
続きを読むWomen are traditionally expected to buy chocolates for male colleagues on Valentine’s Day but teenage boys are shunning the one-sided customIt has been several years since Japanese women first signalled their contempt for the long tradition of showerin…
続きを読むMohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girlsA senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan a…
続きを読むFor nearly two decades, ‘General’ Narsamma and her team at Sangham Radio have honed their craft, learning every aspect of broadcasting, including fixing the radio mast and interview techniquesWords and photographs by Uday NarayananAs twilight settles o…
続きを読むWomen from all over West Bengal and beyond travel to Vrindavan for a life of prayer, many having suffered abuse, stigma and abandonment by families who see them as cursed. Up to 20,000 widows – nearly 20% of the city’s population – have found refuge in…
続きを読むReasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity are being committed against women and girls in Afghanistan, application saysThe international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afg…
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