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Women's rights and gender equality

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

  • Marchers made their way past homes, gated communities and apartment blocks, demanding justice, safety and respect

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    Thousands of Indian women protest after junior doctor’s rape and murder – video

  • Protest in Kolkata over an alleged rape and murder incident at RG Kar Medical College<br>epa11549404 Citizens of Kolkata shout slogans against the government as they attend a mass protest over a rape and murder incident that took place at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, India, 14 August 2024. The Kolkata High Court on 13 August ruled that a probe into the rape and murder of a doctor during her working hours at RG Kar Medical College must be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A postgraduate student was found dead at a seminar hall of the hospital on 09 August, sparking state-wide protest protests and a strike by medical students and doctors. EPA/PIYAL ADHIKARY

    Indian women march to ‘reclaim the night’ after doctor’s rape and murder

  • An Afghan woman with images of armed Taliban soldiers and women queuing

    I live under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. That’s why I am urging the world to engage with them

    Anonymous
  • A woman in a burqa

    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

  • Fawzia, Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.

    Today in Focus
    The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast

  • Susanna Rustin

    Dramatic deeds are remembered, but too many feminists of the past are forgotten

    Susanna Rustin
  • A girl wearing a white dress and angel's wings stands in a room with supernatural light coming through cracks in the ceiling.

    Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    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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