UN children’s agency welcomes drop in number of underage brides, but warns 12 million girls still getting married each yearThe number of child marriages is declining worldwide, but at too slow a pace for any hope of eliminating the practice this centur…
続きを読むUeno’s books are hugely popular in China, where a crackdown on large-scale organising has stifled a nascent feminist movementTo find evidence that China’s feminist movement is gaining momentum – despite strict government censorship and repression – che…
続きを読むOfficials say it will leave in May if Taliban cannot be persuaded to let local women work for organisationThe UN is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it cannot persuade the Taliban to let local women work f…
続きを読むFemale candidates in the local elections across the country this weekend face one of the world’s toughest glass ceilingsAi Ishimori was teaching Japanese cookery classes in France when she was gripped by an urge to return to her home country.“Shinzo Ab…
続きを読むFrom Bogotá to Dhaka, women are likely to shoulder the bulk of chores and childcare. Six women talk about their duties and the challenge of shifting the burden now and for the next generationSome days, Abha Kujur, 39, feels like the family “servant”. T…
続きを読むAs the Taliban denies women access to any schooling, there has been a rise in students being married off to ease family povertyIt is six weeks since the Taliban closed the door on girls’ education across Afghanistan and Zeina’s last vestiges of hope fo…
続きを読むWhen the rains came last autumn, I was among the millions made homeless in Sindh province. Here is why – months later – I am still helping to patch up ruined livesRead more: Pakistan families still hungry and homeless months after the floodsThe floods …
続きを読むRappers Wild Wild Women use their searing lyrics to highlight the treatment of their sisters in a socially conservative country It’s not easy being a wild woman in India – as members of what is believed to be the country’s first female rap group can t…
続きを読むA Taliban decree against higher education for women – called a ‘betrayal of the nation’ – has led to male lecturers and student walkouts in solidarityBaktash Amini loved his job as an assistant professor in the physics faculty at Kabul University. As w…
続きを読むDawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.Dawlat Khan…
続きを読むMany Afghan families rely solely on female breadwinners, yet the latest restrictions threaten to increase hardship and unemployment linesIt has been just days since Gulsoom, the only breadwinner in her family of six, has had no job to go to. But she is…
続きを読むSecurity council’s rare display of unity adds pressure after most aid groups in Afghanistan suspend servicesFaint hopes exist that the Taliban may relax its ban on all women working for the non-governmental aid agencies in Afghanistan after the UN secu…
続きを読むFemale employees of NGOs told to stop coming to work in latest move to curtail women’s freedoms in AfghanistanAfghanistan’s Taliban-run administration has ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to stop female employees from…
続きを読むNeda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break outThe minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a…
続きを読むWomen’s groups and activists call on authorities to toughen laws after two men threw corrosive liquid at a schoolgirl on a street last weekHundreds of acid attack survivors are demanding stricter laws against the sale of chemicals, after two men on a m…
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