From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
The rankings of the worst countries in the world to be a woman usually list Yemen, India, Pakistan, Chad, Syria and Iran. Oddly, Mexico is not among them. Español
Despite shocking accounts of harassment and discrimination within their profession, women lawyers in Zimbabwe and beyond are fighting for more gender-sensitive laws.
Despite repeated pledges to promote gender parity in politics, women are dramatically underrepresented among candidates for July's elections.
Violence against women is perpetrated in order to sustain patriarchal power relations. Projects to prevent violence, through economic empowerment, must remember this.
Machismo is widespread in Mexico. One organisation takes aim at ‘negative masculinities’ with weekly group classes. Español
Why are Palestine’s feminists fighting on two fronts?
There will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families minister opposes abortion, immigration and LGBTI rights.
A new book, Transition Denied, exposes 'system failures' to protect vulnerable trans teenagers in Britain. This excerpt is from its prelude, by Synestra de Courcy’s mother.
