A specific focus on the pressing issues affecting women, girls and
transgender people around the world, and the critical work being carried
out by women’s rights movements
August 2024
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Thousands of Indian women protest after junior doctor’s rape and murder – video
Indian women march to ‘reclaim the night’ after doctor’s rape and murder
I live under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. That’s why I am urging the world to engage with them
Anonymous
Rights and freedom
Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’
Rights and freedom
Iranian woman reportedly paralysed in shooting over alleged hijab law violation
Rights and freedom
‘Can I complain while we’re at war?’: Ukraine’s domestic violence dilemma
Rights and freedom
Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists
Women behind the lens
Women behind the lens: ‘The colour, the light, the happy goat – the scene looked like a painting’
She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women
Rights and freedom
Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka
July 2024
Today in Focus
The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast
Dramatic deeds are remembered, but too many feminists of the past are forgotten
Susanna Rustin
Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire
Rights and freedom
UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile
MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation
The Guardian picture essay
In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest
UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief
Opinion
Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM
Josephine Kamara
‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran
Women behind the lens
Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’
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