Women's rights and gender equality
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‘The chilling effect’: how fear of ‘nudify’ apps and AI deepfakes is keeping Indian women off the internet
Widespread adoption of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by new ways to harass women onlineGaatha S…
- Global development, Global health, Law, Pakistan, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The young lawyer taking Pakistan to court over its unfair ‘period tax’
Mahnoor Omer hopes the case will put public pressure on the government to make sanitary products affordable in…
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Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures
The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women defen…
- Art and design, Culture, Global development, India, Photography, Sexual violence, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her’
Indian artist Indu Antony was mesmerised when she first saw 78-year-old Cecilia and has put her at the heart o…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair
Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 prov…
- Afghanistan, Education, Faith schools, Gender, Global education, Islam, Religion, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option
Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic educationWh…
- Divorce, Domestic violence, Global development, India, Life and style, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Too many women choose death over divorce’: the Indian retreats taking the shame out of separation
Divorce is not an end but a beginning, says Rafia Afi, who gets women together to change ideas about toxic mar…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, witho…
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‘Because of women it became a people’s revolution’: what has changed one year on from Bangladesh’s student uprising?
Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted – and how the country can secure l…
- Afghanistan, Global development, International criminal court, International criminal justice, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Violence against women and girls, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for c…
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Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick
Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea …
- 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 labour, Child marriage, Global development, Hysterectomy, India, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality
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…
- Afghanistan, Global development, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
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 cou…
- 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…