Gender
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‘A turning point’: Indian art fair challenges gender and sexual stereotypes
Participants including Aravani trans art collective are shifting perceptions in male-dominated societyEven thr…
- Asia Pacific, Discrimination at work, Environment, Gender, Global development, India, International Women's Day, Malaysia, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, Work & careers, World news
‘Women of the wild’: the platform giving India’s nature experts a voice
Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to s…
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South Korea’s poisonous gender politics a test for next president
As election campaign enters final stages, the two leading candidates have been accused of pandering to sexism …
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New Zealand bans conversion practices in vote hailed as ‘win for humanity’
Law makes it an offence to perform so-called ‘therapy’ on anyone under 18 and comes with sentence of up to thr…
- Afghanistan, Education, Gender, Global development, Global education, Islam, Islamic veil, Religion, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Afghan universities reopen with strict rules for female students
Women required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Education, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
West plans to tie Afghan teacher aid to girls’ education pledge
Funds will go only to those provinces where girls are in school if Taliban renege on promise, diplomats sayThe…
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Protest, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Taliban launch raids on homes of Afghan women’s rights activists
Campaigners arrested by armed men days after anti-hijab protest in Kabul, with beatings reportedTaliban gunmen…
- Cricket, Gender, Gender pay gap, Global development, Inequality, Life and style, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Sport, Women, World news
‘She chopped her hair off’: Pakistani women’s struggle to play cricket
In such a conservative country, young women often have to fight their own families first just to play the spor…
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Arrests after female Muslim activists ‘put up for sale’ in fake auction in India
Women say website aims to punish journalists, academics and artists drawing attention to hate speechPolice in …
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‘Boys and girls have equal freedom’: Kerala backs gender-neutral uniforms
Primary school pupils run free in shorts while a secondary school has gone ahead with uniform changes despite …
- Abortion, Gender, Global development, India, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Families want a son at any cost’: the women forced to abort female foetuses in India
Laali and Meenakshi’s unborn daughters are among the country’s 46 million ‘missing’ women and girls over the p…
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China mulls bolstering laws on women’s rights and sexual harassment
Draft safeguards would mark major development in women’s rights as China faces calls for gender equalityChina …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Life and style, Protest, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Violence against women and girls, Women, World news
They stayed to fight the Taliban. Now the protesters are being hunted down
Women’s rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan’s new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture…
- Afghanistan, Education, Gender, Global education, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Uncertainty hovers over Helmand’s schools as Taliban ban older girls
At Malalay school in Lashkar Gah, female staff struggle into work despite anxiety over their jobs and half the…
- Afghanistan, Education, Gender, Global development, Global education, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan
Government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girlsThe Taliban have effecti…