Women's Rights

With record female unemployment and cuts to women’s services, campaigners are looking to international law to stop the squeeze…

A young dance company is tackling tough issues through its performances, as its founder Kwame Asafo-Adjei explains.…

Mgcini Nyoni laments the constant abuse of women’s and girls’ rights in his home country.…

Iris Gonzales offers a lament for the state of women’s rights and a hope for a better future.…

So why aren’t Indians up in arms about it? Time to name and shame, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.…

Fears of a flood of sex workers entering London are creating extreme unease despite little evidence to back this up, says Giedre Steikunaite.…

Fed up with near-zero democracy and rampant corruption, thousands have taken to the streets of Swaziland this week to call for change, reports Nick Harvey.…

Guatemalan women experience one of the highest levels of violence in the world – and the crimes often go unpunished, reports Anna Bevan.…

Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on the contradictions of what feminism is to her and what it isn't.…

With attempts to mark International Women’s Day thwarted by angry men, Glen Johnson discovers that Egypt’s uprising has yet to improve the situation of its women.…