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Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her employerIt was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kab…
続きを読むShot in stunning black and white, a tapestry of faces and voices beautifully lays bare the hidden subtleties of Indian women’s emotional livesDuring peak rush hour, the Mumbai metro turns into a bustling microcosm of the city’s social fabric. Largely s…
続きを読むBegum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour…
続きを読むCulture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban’s treatment of womenUK politics live – latest updatesEngland should be allowed to play next month’s cricket match against Afghanistan, the culture and sport …
続きを読むAfghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of healthcareThe Taliban’s ban on Afghan women attending nursing and midwife courses has been condemned as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human ri…
続きを読むDongduk women’s university in Seoul was set up to help women in a deeply patriarchal society, but a demographic crisis is putting that under pressureSpray paint and protest banners cover the walls and pavements of Dongduk women’s university in Seoul. “…
続きを読むMade under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021Afghan film-maker Sahra Mani, creator of the rape-survivor documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me from 2018, b…
続きを読むPayal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light wowed Cannes with its portrayal of the struggles of women in Mumbai. She talks about inequality, misogyny – and being hauntedThere is nothing ostensibly special about Mumbai, according to Payal Kapadia. There is …
続きを読むSince the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a Trump victory could reverse that progress, warn experts“One, two, three,” says Soman Rai slowly, to the click of his fingers. “Every three sec…
続きを読むAfghanistan would have six months to provide response before ICJ would hold hearingThe Taliban are to be taken to the international court of justice for gender discrimination by Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands in a groundbreaking move.Th…
続きを読むFewer than 1% of chief executive officers at the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are women, survey findsJapan’s long campaign to appoint more women to senior roles in business and industry has suffered a blow after a survey found that ju…
続きを読むNational police agency says it is investigating 513 cases of deepfake pornography as a new scandal grips the countryThe anger was palpable. For the second time in just a few years, South Korean women took to the streets of Seoul to demand an end to sex…
続きを読むWomen are only permitted to lease land in the Pacific country as advocacy groups call for reform to the systemOfa Ki Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki was attending a workshop on gender issues in Tonga many years ago when she came to a striking realisation: “…
続きを読むOrganisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking in publicMore than 130 Afghan women have gathered in Albania at an All Afghan Women summit, in an attempt to develop a united voice representin…
続きを読むReport reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rightsExtreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender…
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