Women
- 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…
- Child marriage, Global development, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health, World news
Pakistan sends ‘important signal’ of hope in a gloomy world of pushbacks on women’s rights
The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage, which politicians say is a mark of the country bucking …
- British empire, Children, Colonialism, Food, Health, India, Kylian Mbappé, Pensions, Second world war, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, UK news, Women
Britain’s bonfire of the atrocities | Brief letters
Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O’Reill…
- Discrimination at work, Gender, Global development, Guardian Careers, India, Inequality, Menopause, Money, Older people, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Work & careers, World news
I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk | Nilanjana Bhowmick
In India, as elsewhere, ‘menopenalisation’ means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider s…
- Afghanistan, Corporal punishment, Global development, Human rights, Islam, Law, Religion, Sharia law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghani…
- Africa, Amnesty International, Climate crisis, Donald Trump, Environment, Europe, Global development, Human rights, Law, LGBTQ+ rights, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US foreign policy, US news, US politics, Women, World news
Trump’s first 100 days supercharged a global ‘freefall of rights’, says Amnesty
World now in era of repressive regimes’ impunity, climate inaction and unchecked corporate power, says reportT…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Health, Infant and child mortality, Infectious diseases, Malaria, Malnutrition, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Trump administration, US foreign policy, USAid, Women, World Health Organization, World news
Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics
Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced …
- Art and design, Culture, Domestic violence, Global development, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’
One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditiona…
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British couple in their 70s arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan
Peter and Barbie Reynolds were detained in Bamiyan provice for ‘teaching mothers parenting with children’The T…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Media, Press freedom, Public service broadcasting, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women in journalism, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Off air: One by one, the Taliban are removing women’s voices from Afghan radio
As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view o…
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Sweet romance: Japanese boys start buying into gift giving on Valentine’s Day
Women are traditionally expected to buy chocolates for male colleagues on Valentine’s Day but teenage boys are…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education
Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary s…
- Culture, Domestic violence, Environment, Global development, India, Media, Radio, Seeds, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
From missing goats to health tips: how a female-run radio station is giving rural India a voice
For nearly two decades, ‘General’ Narsamma and her team at Sangham Radio have honed their craft, learning ever…
- Global development, Hinduism, India, Religion, Society, South and Central Asia, Widows, Women, Women's rights and gender equality
Solace and sisterhood: the Indian holy city where ostracised widows find a new home – in pictures
Women from all over West Bengal and beyond travel to Vrindavan for a life of prayer, many having suffered abus…