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Priya Ramani cleared of defamation over sexual assault accusation against Mobashar Jawed AkbarA court in Delhi has acquitted a journalist of defamation after she accused a former government minister of sexual assault, in a landmark ruling for India’s #…
Read MoreActivists warn new anti-trafficking law requiring permission from families to travel is evidence of ‘deep-rooted patriarchal mindset’A proposed law in Nepal that would ban women from travelling abroad without permission from their families and local go…
Read MoreHundreds married to men who travelled to Pakistan for militant training now find themselves statelessUnder dark skies in Kashmir’s heavily militarised town of Kupwara, Saira Javed mournfully recalled her happy childhood.Recounting her early life in Kar…
Read MoreFashion brand to investigate the death of 20-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel, reportedly killed by supervisor at Natchi ApparelsThe family of a young garment worker at an H&M supplier factory in Tamil Nadu who was allegedly murdered by her supervisor s…
Read MoreA new women-led initiative in Afghanistan is working to break down the barriers to help both victims and perpetratorsNabila felt her diesel-drenched clothes stick to her skin, her lungs filling with fumes, hot panic rising.It hadn’t been the first time…
Read MoreIn a country where women often still resort to rags as sanitary towels, campaigners are trying to break down a damaging tabooIn a village school near the beach, Koshala Dilrukshi teaches English to students from Uswetakeiyawa, a Sri Lankan fishing vill…
Read MoreFamily of women’s rights advocate, found dead in Canadian lake, call for police to reopen investigationIt was the homecoming they never wanted. Five years ago, Karima Baloch fled Pakistan after her work as a prominent human rights activist put her life…
Read MoreJudge said the ‘humiliating’ practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violenceA Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented r…
Read MoreSaba Sahar, who returned fire while protecting her daughter, survived one of a wave of recent assassination attempts that have killed six policewomenIt was just after 7am when the car carrying Colonel Saba Sahar, one of Afghanistan’s most senior female…
Read MoreShoko Arai says she was ‘punished’ for making accusation against mayorA former assembly member in Japan who alleges she was sexually assaulted by the mayor of the town she represented has spoken out, claiming residents were unduly pressured into voting…
Read MoreWomen from the mountains of Uttarakhand in India have been guaranteed palanquins so that they can reach vital transport Narendra Kumar is going to become a father in early January. His wife, Kavita, became pregnant two months after they got married in …
Read MoreLegislation will speed up rape trials, protect identity of victims and create a sex offender registerPakistan’s president has approved a tough new anti-rape law which includes the establishment of special courts to speed up rape trials and the chemical…
Read MoreFree sanitary pad dispensers installed on campuses in effort to counter ‘stigma of menstruation’ in the country Chinese students have launched a program setting up free sanitary pad dispensers in toilets at universities across the country in a bid to e…
Read MoreA strikingly-designed centre reminiscent of Rajasthan’s famous forts will soon be opening its doors in conservative Jaisalmer“Don’t even try,” friends told Michael Daube, when he said he wanted to coax women in Jaisalmer to embroider yoga bags to help …
Read MoreFamiliar issues of discrimination and child marriage are being taken to the stage through interactive theatre in remote villagesHigh in the mountains of a remote village in western Nepal – a region once home to a fierce Maoist insurgency – a large crow…
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