Women
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair
Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 prov…
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South Korean woman who bit off attacker’s tongue acquitted after 61 years
Choi Mal-ja’s appeal gained momentum after #MeToo movement inspired her to seek justiceA court in South Korea …
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South Korean woman who bit off attacker’s tongue acquitted after 61 years
Choi Mal-ja’s appeal gained momentum after #MeToo movement inspired her to seek justiceA court in South Korea …
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Afghanistan, Beauty, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, World news
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operations…
- Divorce, Domestic violence, Global development, India, Life and style, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Too many women choose death over divorce’: the Indian retreats taking the shame out of separation
Divorce is not an end but a beginning, says Rafia Afi, who gets women together to change ideas about toxic mar…
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‘Now it’s about personal happiness’: popular Granny Wang dating show belies China’s plummeting marriage rate
Zhou Mei’s matchmaking show draws crowds in person and online, but young Chinese increasingly choose singledom…
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Men celebrate fourth anniversary of Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan
Thousands gathered for Kabul ‘flower showers’ while women, banned from the events, staged protestsThousands of…
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Thursday briefing: How the colonial legacy has created a toxic beauty industry
In today’s newsletter: Doctors are sounding the alarm over a surge in cancers and irreversible skin damage lin…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, witho…
- Activism, Bangladesh, Garment workers, Global development, Indigenous peoples, Life and style, Muhammad Yunus, Protest, Sexual violence, Sheikh Hasina, Society, South and Central Asia, Transgender, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Because of women it became a people’s revolution’: what has changed one year on from Bangladesh’s student uprising?
Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted – and how the country can secure l…
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Chinese officials warn women comedians that men are no laughing matter
The warning comes after a string of shows by women comedians joking about men went viralChinese provincial off…
- Cities and development, Delhi, Domestic violence, Gender, Global development, India, Life and style, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Violence against women and girls, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick
Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea …
- Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Gardens, Global development, India, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Trees and forests, Wildlife, Women, World news
Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants
In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest int…
- 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…