لأول مرة في تاريخ مصر, ترتدي سيدتها الأولى الحجاب و كما أثار زوجها قلق الكثيرون حول مدنية الدولة, أثارت زوجته القلق حول صورة المرأة المصرية.
Rumours of the closure of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and a World Bank and USAID meeting of "world thought leaders" with no women on the panel. On the final day of the XIX International AIDS Conference, Alice Welbourn reports on the battle for the human rights of women with HIV to heal
"It is a terrible irony that we have come to a place where the medications we fought for will allow us to live a relatively normal quality of life, and now we are going to go to jail for doing so". Louise Binder reports on laws that will deter people from testing for HIV and increase the fear of s
There is no shortage of documentation regarding the struggle of women living with HIV to access basic care, support, and treatment. There is however a dearth of remedies and of justice.
حوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات في مجال حقوق النساء يستخدمن وسائل الإعلام الجديدة لإعطاء المرأة والرجل مساحه للتعبير وجمع البيانات لتعبئة صناع القرار ورجال الشرطة لتشكيل قانون لمعاقبة المتحرشين. الدعم للحملة لم يكن بالإجماع، بل واجه وج
As we enter the fourth decade of AIDS, we need to assert once again the importance of transparency, knowledge and autonomy in the introduction and distribution of technologies for prevention and treatment of the disease.
44,3% of all new diagnoses of HIV are among migrant women. New culturally appropriate approaches are needed to community work, in order to reach those women who are most marginalized, says Silvia Petretti.
As the London Olympics welcome more women competitors than ever before in a wider range of events, Sue Tibballs of the UK’s Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation, asks why feminists allowed sport to become a safe male haven for chauvinists of every class and nation?
During the first two hours of the military onslaught on Al-Tadamon nearly 5,000 people - mostly women and children - were displaced, including hundreds of internally displaced people originally from other parts of Syria.
In Chechnya, the warfare that rumbled on between 1994 and 2009 has been turned against the republic’s women. The most public aspect of this campaign is the progressive imposition of a so-called ‘Islamic’ dress code. Lisa Kazbekova charts its course, enquires why it is happening, and how Chechnya’s
Taisa wanted to be a singer, but ended up becoming a victim of one of Russia's most patriarchal and violent societies. oDRussia continues its series of 'stories you weren't meant to hear' with a harrowing narrative from Chechnya.
Young women in Kabardino-Balkaria must resort to lies and stratagems to navigate a society governed by man-made rules and double standards. In this excerpt from an unpublished novel, Marina Marshenkulova reveals through fiction the reality she cannot describe as a journalist.