Women’s rights and gender equality

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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 school and higher education for girlsA senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan a…

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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 every aspect of broadcasting, including fixing the radio mast and interview techniquesWords and photographs by Uday NarayananAs twilight settles o…

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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 abuse, stigma and abandonment by families who see them as cursed. Up to 20,000 widows – nearly 20% of the city’s population – have found refuge in…

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ICC prosecutor seeks warrants for Afghan Taliban leaders over persecution of women – video

The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced that he had requested arrest warrants for two top Taliban officials for the repression of women. He accused the group’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and the country’s s…

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ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women

Reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity are being committed against women and girls in Afghanistan, application saysThe international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afg…

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The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage

Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her employerIt was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kab…

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Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders not to support Taliban ‘gender apartheid’ – video

Speaking at an inaugural conference on girls’ education in the Muslim world, Malala Yousafzai decried the state of women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan as ‘gender apartheid’. The conference in Islamabad brought together local and international advo…

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‘It’s a continuation of hope’: Paris-based TV station provides a lifeline for women in Afghanistan

Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour…

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We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part one

From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hopeNine years ago, Cecilia Llusco was one of 11 Indigenous women who made it to the summit of the 6,088 metre-high Huayn…

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Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’

Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of healthcareThe Taliban’s ban on Afghan women attending nursing and midwife courses has been condemned as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human ri…

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Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails

Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work banDestitute Afghan women arrested for begging under draconian new Taliban laws have spoken of “brutal” rapes and beatings in detention.Over the past few mo…

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Bread & Roses review – Afghan women reveal crushing reality of Taliban rule

Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021Afghan film-maker Sahra Mani, creator of the rape-survivor documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me from 2018, b…

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‘One-man anti-abortion army’: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal’s family planning services

Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a Trump victory could reverse that progress, warn experts“One, two, three,” says Soman Rai slowly, to the click of his fingers. “Every three sec…

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What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls’ rights in AfghanistanRead more: Afghan exiles on the Taliban’s gender apartheidOver the past three years, the world has watched in horror as…

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