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Zahra Joya started Rukhshana Media so Afghan women could tell their stories in their own words. Now she is battling to keep it going as long as she canDespite years of development, investment and progress in the Afghan media industry, 28-year-old Zahra…
Read MoreSalima Mazari, one of only three female district governors in Afghanistan, tells of her motivation to fight the militantsIt is early morning in Charkint, in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, but a meeting with the governor is already well und…
Read MoreAt 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands of others and call for free educationPriyanka Bairwa was 15 when her family, began to look for a husband for her. The pandemic sped up the pro…
Read MoreRaoof Hasan, special assistant to Imran Khan, responds to criticism of the Pakistani prime minister’s remarks on women and sexual assaultMuch is being made of comments by Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, on the observance of purdah in Islam and h…
Read MoreMisinformation and access issues combined with patriarchal social norms fuelling disparity in distribution across most statesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDeep-rooted structural inequalities and patriarchal values are to b…
Read MoreIn One Thousand Dreams, award-winning photographer Robin Hammond hands the camera to refugees. Often reduced by the media’s toxic or well-meaning narratives, the portraits and interviews capture a different and more complex tale‘Never stop dreaming’: r…
Read MoreSkiing is a beacon of hope for the brave young women who have taken up the sport at Bamyan Ski Club amid political turmoil in the countryIt is 6.30am and Nazira Khairzad, 18, and her older sister Nazima, 19, are sat with their family trying to eat the …
Read MoreActivist and politician Habiba Sarabi tells Moscow talks ‘51% of people should not be ignored’A three-day conference aimed at breathing life into Afghanistan’s stalled peace process has been launched in Moscow, but Afghan human rights activists have ra…
Read MoreLargest 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 MoreMovie about an affair between a woman and an older man aims to challenge stereotype of Afghan women as weak and repressedThere are few pavements in Kabul, so when Shahrbanoo Sadat steps out for her daily walk, she shares the roads with cars and tanks. …
Read MoreTamayo Marukawa among 50 conservative MPs to urge local body not to support policy changeJapan’s minister for women’s empowerment and gender equality, Tamayo Marukawa, is among a group of conservative MPs who have opposed a legal change that would allo…
Read MoreLDP’s attempt to demonstrate gender equality after Olympic sexism row backfiresIt was a move designed to show that Japan’s ruling party was committed to gender equality after the sexism row that forced one of its former prime ministers, Yoshiro Mori, t…
Read MoreGrowing numbers of women ditch giri choco custom of ‘forced giving’ of gifts to senior male colleaguesShifting gender politics and the coronavirus have combined to spell the possible end of the Japanese Valentine’s Day custom of women giving chocolates…
Read MoreYuriko Koike says attending meeting with under-fire Games chief would not send positive messageThe governor of Tokyo has said she will not attend a key meeting of Olympic officials next week, as the row over sexist comments made by the head of the 2020…
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