カテゴリー: Women
Civil court rules in favour of reporter, two years after she alleged a bureau chief date-raped herA Japanese woman whose rape accusations against a prominent TV journalist turned her into a symbol of the country’s fledgling #MeToo movement has been awa…
Killings of a six-year-old girl and a vet are just two examples of a problem that appears to be getting worseHer family called her Twinkle. In the dry desert brush of Rajasthan where her body was found, blood spattering her tiny legs and brown school u…
Christchurch man Matt Brown set up a barber shop after the 2011 earthquake, and realised just listening can lead to a lot of goodThere are the hardened criminals. The patched gang members. The older men who watched their father beat their mother before…
Police ‘looked on and watched’ during assault as activists tried to enforce right to visit shrineFemale activists in India were violently attacked by protesters and stopped by police as they attempted to make a pilgrimage to a Hindu temple which was co…
Public outcry after TV show exposes businesses imposing ban on female staffJapanese women on social media are demanding the right to wear glasses to work, after reports that employers were imposing bans.In the latest protest against rigid rules over wo…
Major Ministry of Justice report analysed tens of thousands of cases over four years, with nearly two-third involving childrenLess than a third of sexual violence reports in New Zealand lead to a court case, and only 11% to a conviction, the most compr…
Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012Anupama Chandrasekhar isn’t one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian p…
Father says he was transferred from personnel to warehouse role and given ‘meaningless’ tasks after returning from leaveA worker at a major sportswear maker in Japan is suing his employer, claiming he was unfairly treated after taking paternity leave, …
New Zealand prime minister’s credentials at home and abroad as a new kind of leader all hang on her next moveIt’s just shy of a year ago that Jacinda Ardern stood in the UN general assembly and spoke in support of the #MeToo movement. There was spontan…
British government must put pressure on Narendra Modi to ease the plight of women whose husbands have been disappeared in the Indian state, writes Margaret OwenIndia’s breach of article 370 of its constitution, which gave special status and autonomy to…
Aid organisations call out ‘dramatic underinvestment’ by Australia and other donors in tackling ‘endemic’ problemViolence against children in the Pacific region has reached “endemic” levels, with children subject to brutal physical discipline in the ho…
Abuse by those in power is so widespread that there is a word for it – ‘gabjil’New legislation has come into effect in South Korea that could see employers jailed if they unfairly dismiss employees harassed at work.Employees in South Korea have traditi…
Annual event marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing and racism as women’s leaders call for pageant to be scrappedThe South Pacific nation of Tonga is in uproar after its annual beauty pageant was marred by accusations of bullying, backstabbing…