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Largest such study finds domestic violence experienced by one-in-four teenage girls with worst levels faced by women in their 30s One in four women and girls around the world have been physically or sexually assaulted by a husband or male partner, acco…
Read MoreA wide range of issues affecting women, from abortion rights to femicide, were highlighted at rallies and events for International Women’s Day on 8 March Continue reading…
Read MoreBorn under Taliban rule, Sara Barackzay studied abroad and now hopes to start her own schoolA woman in traditional dress breaks open the bars of a prison. A young child dances, oblivious to a backdrop of tanks and explosions. The drawings by Afghanista…
Read MoreA roundup of the best photography on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Algeria to Uganda Continue reading…
Read MoreActivists warn new anti-trafficking law requiring permission from families to travel is evidence of ‘deep-rooted patriarchal mindset’A proposed law in Nepal that would ban women from travelling abroad without permission from their families and local go…
Read MoreCriticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abuses of religious minoritiesThe family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after alle…
Read MoreFamily of women’s rights advocate, found dead in Canadian lake, call for police to reopen investigationIt was the homecoming they never wanted. Five years ago, Karima Baloch fled Pakistan after her work as a prominent human rights activist put her life…
Read MoreJudge said the ‘humiliating’ practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violenceA Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented r…
Read MoreWomen are slowly gaining rights and finding the strength to shake off the social taboos around ending a bad relationshipParveena Jabeen was all set to get married, but in Kashmir weddings are extravagant affairs.Traditionally, brides in the valley of K…
Read MoreHome workers in Sindh province are celebrating new social security benefits, after being denied lockdown fundingShamim Bano has been an invisible worker for 40 years. Working 12-hour days from home as a “cropper” in the port city of Karachi, she cuts t…
Read MoreThere are still those who ask ‘what was she wearing’. An urgent conversation is needed about toxic masculinity and consentThere has been growing outrage among Bangladeshi citizens over the past two weeks at a string of gruesome gang rapes and sexual as…
Read MoreRural women in Tamil Nadu are mostly excluded from land ownership, but collective farms can offer self-sufficiencyWhen all the shops closed due to the coronavirus lockdown, small collectives were key to remaining self-sufficient for marginalised farmer…
Read MoreMove comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaultsBangladesh will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several high-profile sexual assaults prompted a wave of protests across the country in recent weeks.Speakin…
Read MoreMove comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaultsBangladesh will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several high-profile sexual assaults prompted a wave of protests across the country in recent weeks.Speakin…
Read MoreFemale musicians say abuse by gurus has been an open secret for years in a culture where ‘toxic and old-fashioned patriarchy’ holds swayOne of India’s most venerated cultural traditions – the centuries-old guru-shishya (disciple) method of learning cla…
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