カテゴリー: Women
Simon Diggins on offering resettlement and educational opportunities to those living under the Taliban regime and Margaret Owen on connecting schoolgirls in Britain and KabulYour harrowing report on the worsening oppression of women in Afghanistan remi…
Women push back at law stating they must not sing or read aloud in public by posting videos of themselves singingAfghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban’s laws banning w…
Women have been stripped of their freedom, dignity and livelihoods. The international community must heed their demandsWomen barely feature in Hollywoodgate, the chilling and remarkable documentary on the Taliban currently showing in selected cinemas. …
Beijing court rejects lawsuit brought by Xu Zaozao, who was seeking to widen access to fertility treatment in ChinaA Chinese woman who filed a groundbreaking lawsuit to win the right to freeze her eggs has lost her final appeal, exhausting the legal av…
People who have fled Afghanistan encourage the international community to sever ties with our government. That only harms those of us still hereThe author is a female Afghan aid workerThe food market was a rare taste of former freedoms. But as two memb…
A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes …
Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violenceThe household was fast asleep when the six men broke in. They sought out Sobia B…
After they were banned in 2023, beauty parlours that once provided a safe space for Afghan women were forced undergroundIt is 9am in a suburb of Kabul when two women in powder-pink burqas ring the doorbell of a drab building. The exterior is a silent r…
Inspired by her own family, Singaporean artist Niceaunties puts aunties at the heart of the world she conjures upThere are high-rise living quarters built from stacks of Tupperware, spas where you can immerse yourself in a giant bowl of ramen and an al…
Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in AfghanistanThe UK should consider restoring its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan to support Afghan women and to help monitor the impact of British aid, a comm…
In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fieldsOne of Alexandra Ndolo’s greatest career achieve…
Rights groups protesting at Modi government’s view that criminalising sexual assault violates ‘sanctity’ of marriageCampaigners angry that marital rape is not to be criminalised under India’s long-awaited new penal code have been promised a ruling on t…
Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rightsTeenage girls and young women arrested by the Taliban for wearing “bad hijab” say they have been subjected to sexual violence and assault in…
Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that women’s rights be excluded from the agendaExcluding Afghan women from an upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan would be a “betrayal” of women and girls…