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India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups

There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guardsThe Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears …

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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 and bringing up strong daughtersThe day Ranjit’s daughter was born, he distributed sweets to the entire village – not just because he was thril…

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Outrage as sugar cane workers in India still being ‘pushed’ into having hysterectomies

Hundreds of woman in one cane producing district were agreeing to the surgery, say activists, in order to keep working long, physically punishing hoursWomen working in sugar cane fields are still being “pushed” to undergo surgery to remove their womb a…

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How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes

Afghan fathers, brothers and husbands are under pressure to ensure the women in their families observe the country’s repressive laws. Here, men and women across the country explain how it is affecting family bondsTo be a father of daughters in the Tali…

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‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones

With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death• ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s IndiaStephen*, 39, is a…

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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 global trends to stand behind its womenDuring last week’s tense debate over whether the Pakistan senate should pass a bill banning child marri…

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‘The fans just circulate hot air’: how indoor heat is making life unbearable in India’s sweltering cities

As the mercury soars, people have been told to shelter inside. But for those in poor housing in places like Bengalaru, there is no respiteAt noon, Khustabi Begum is sitting on the steps leading to her three-room home, trying to escape the stifling Apri…

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Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom

Two reports published today catalogue ‘gruesome yet avoidable accidents’ on construction sites despite the Gulf kingdom’s claims that work-related deaths have fallenThousands of migrant workers are likely to die in Saudi Arabia as a result of a buildin…

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‘If I had to choose, I’d prefer the earthquake’: the 2015 disaster left Nepal in ruins, now record rains wreak fresh havoc

Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events and US aid cuts have left many feeling vulnerableWhen the monsoon rains came last September, they swept away most of the village of Panauti, in …

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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 society“If I take another pay cut, I might as well start working pro bono,” I joked with a friend recently, during another brutal round of job …

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‘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 AfghanistanThree Afghan women who were brutally flogged in public by the Taliban after being accused of “moral crimes” have bravely spoken out about …

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From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunitiesIt took Jeewanthi Adhikari a decade to get the promotion she wanted working in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. For years, she wat…

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