Women's Rights

It is no longer acceptable to live in a world where young girls are taken out of school and forced into early marriage, where women’s employment opportunities are limited, and where the threat of gender-based violence is a daily reality — at home, in the street, at school and at work. -Michele Bachelet, Head of UN Women…

Sierra Leone’s longest-serving female death row prisoner is released after eight years.…

‘Uncle’ Saddam was a constant and sinister presence in Zainab Salbi’s childhood years…

Our new blogger Mari Marcel Thekaekara, based in India, considers stories that never hit the headlines…

Dawn Starin hopes that one day the women of the Gambia will escape the horror of female genital mutilation.…

In strictly segregated Yemeni society, child sexual abuse is kept well-hidden…

As the African nation celebrates its half-century of independence, Sokari Ekine looks at Nigerian ‘women of action’ from the 1920s to the present day.…

Sian Griffiths talks to Sima Samar, once Afghanistan’s most powerful female politician and now a fervent women’s rights campaigner.…

Human rights organizations call for firmer action by the Argentinean government.…

*Durga Sob*, founder of the Feminist Dalit Organization, is fighting discrimination in Nepal.…