カテゴリー: Women’s rights and gender equality
Six men arrested after Pakistani-Spanish women tricked into travelling to Gujrat where they were shotTwo sisters with dual Pakistani and Spanish citizenship were allegedly killed by their husbands, uncle and brother in a so-called “honour” killing a da…
Women say they fear going out in public despite Taliban vow to respect hard-won rights after 2021 takeoverDespite everything that has happened to her country since the Taliban seized power last August, 29-year old Nafisa still never believed there woul…
Daughters too often get cut out of their inheritance, but more women are standing up for their rights – and change is comingWhen my 67-year-old grandmother, Poli, learned that her four brothers had divided all the family land among themselves, she was …
Gulafroz Ebtekar, a former top CID officer in Kabul, tells how she escaped the Taliban and is now working in exile to restore justice for the women of her homelandWhen the Taliban entered Kabul on the morning of 15 August last year, Gulafroz Ebtekar re…
Two dozen girls and women react to Taliban’s decision to shut secondary schools to girls across AfghanistanWomen and girls staged a protest near the Taliban’s ministry of education in Kabul on Saturday, calling on the group to reopen girls’ secondary s…
A lack of teachers and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion is a sign of differences in vision for Afghanistan’s futureEarlier this week, girls across Afghanistan arrived for lessons on the day secondary schools were due to op…
As female students are denied schooling and career prospects, medical staff warn of a rise in mental health problemsThere was an English exam under way when news began to circulate that the Taliban had reached Kabul. Panic spread and Yamna was among th…
Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to showcase ‘the untold stories of women working for science and nature’“I wish these things wouldn’t happen to anyone,” says Akanksha Sood Singh,…
Now a refugee in the UK, Joya and the Rukhshana Media agency defied threats to report on life for women under the TalibanThe Afghan journalist Zahra Joya has been named as one of Time’s women of the year 2022 for her reporting of women’s lives in Afgha…
Women and girls have challenged conservative attitudes in the hallowed surf spot of Arugam BayGrowing up in a small fishing village along the east coast of Sri Lanka, Shamali Sanjaya would often sit on the beach and look out at the boisterous waves. Sh…
Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam, in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against womenA court in Islamabad has sentenced to death the tycoon’s son who raped and murdered Noor Mukadam, a case that sparked outrage in…
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
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After the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, millions of teenage girls have been forbidden from receiving a high school education. Taliban officials have claimed the ban is temporary, but said the same thing the last time they were in power more t…