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Liu Jingyao launched civil proceedings in 2019 against retail billionaire Liu Qiangdong One of China’s biggest and most divisive #MeToo cases, which had been set to play out with extraordinary transparency because of its US location and was closely wat…
Read MoreAssault by Chen Jizhi and his friends on 10 June has sparked a national debate over gender-based violenceThe main perpetrator of an assault against a group of women at a barbecue restaurant in China has been sentenced to 24 years in prison, after the c…
Read MoreTokyo high court rules that child born after woman’s legal gender change should not be recognised as her daughterA Japanese court has ruled that a child born after a transgender woman went through her surgical and legal transition should not be recogni…
Read MoreZhou Xiaoxuan, who alleges TV host groped her, hopes case proves ‘difficulty of being a woman’ in ChinaThe woman at the centre of a landmark case in China’s #MeToo movement has vowed not to give up after a court rejected her appeal for an apology and d…
Read MoreSatoko Kishimoto sets sights on ‘radical change’ in Japan, where only 2% of local government leaders are womenThe first female mayor of a district in Tokyo has vowed to challenge Japan’s male-dominated politics, weeks after she became one of only two w…
Read MoreNotoriously sexist, Japanese politics is being shaken up as parties increase female representation at upper house electionsLess than a year ago, voters in Japan had to look very hard to find a woman’s name on ballot papers for the lower house election….
Read MoreElders call for international recognition but supreme leader tells foreign countries not to interfereA gathering of thousands of Afghan clerics and elders has ended with a call for international recognition, but silence on the country’s ban on secondar…
Read MoreThe results will impact not only domestic policy but also the wider Pacific and geopolitical landscapePapua New Guinea to head to the polls amid election violenceIn the coming days, Papua New Guineans will head to the polls to vote in the first nationa…
Read MoreThe regime intensifies repression and suffering while failing to address the country’s urgent humanitarian needsTwo decades ago, photographs of blue burqas became perhaps the totemic image of life under the Taliban, as Afghan women’s rights were invoke…
Read MoreDaughters 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 …
Read MoreParticipants including Aravani trans art collective are shifting perceptions in male-dominated societyEven through the haze of shimmering heat and thick Delhi dust, the mural is impossible to miss. Pinks, blues, greens and yellows pop off the wall, com…
Read MoreFrustrated 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,…
Read MoreAs election campaign enters final stages, the two leading candidates have been accused of pandering to sexism to win the votes of aggrieved young men The identity of South Korea’s next leader will be determined this week by the economy, housing prices …
Read MoreLaw makes it an offence to perform so-called ‘therapy’ on anyone under 18 and comes with sentence of up to three years’ imprisonmentNew Zealand has banned conversion practices, with near unanimity, after all but eight National party members voted in fa…
Read MoreWomen required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeoverPublic universities in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan have reopened after …
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