Gender

Stronger Laws to Deter Acid Attacks on Women

By Ranjita Biswas
Preeti Rathi was just 25 years old when she passed away in a Mumbai hospital exactly a month after a man threw acid on her while she stood waiting on a railway platform.

U.N. Deploys Women Protection Advisers to Curb Sexual Violence

By Thalif Deen
Despite the United Nations' "zero tolerance" policy against sexual violence, there has been a rash of gender-based crimes in several of the world's conflict zones, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Northern Uganda, Somalia, the Central African Republic - and, more recently, in politically-troubled Egypt and Syria.

Metrosexualism in Cuba: Macho Minds in Pampered Bodies

By Ivet González
More and more young men in Cuba are moving away from the traditional masculine aesthetic and are spending hours in front of the mirror or at the gym. But they are not any less “machista” in behaviour, according to specialists meeting in the capital.

Need to Protect DRC’s School Girls from Sexual Assault

By Emmanuel Chaco
In some Democratic Republic of Congo schools, teachers and senior authorities are using their status to abuse girls who do not know their rights, according to the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights.

Turkish Women Push Back Against Patriarchy

By Ariam Frezghi
Among the many issues bringing protestors together at Gezi Park, the now-iconic site of struggle in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, is the demand for women’s liberation.

Children of Conflict

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Qasim have a lot in common.

Q&A: In Search of “Missing Girls” in TV and Film

By Lydia Lim
Apart from being an actress, film producer and writer, Geena Davis is a leading advocate of equal gender portrayal in the entertainment media.

Curbs on Abortion Spread Across East Europe

By Pavol Stracansky
A “virus” of restrictive abortion legislation is spreading from Eastern Europe, health experts and rights campaigners have said, amid Church pressure and misguided government attempts to stop falling birth rates.

When Children Give Birth to Children

By Mallika Aryal
Radhika Thapa was just 16 years old when she married a 21-year-old boy three years ago. Now, she is expecting a baby and is well into the last months of her pregnancy. This is not the first time she has been with child – her first two pregnancies ended in miscarriages.

Q&A: “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”

By Joan Erakit
On Thursday, the international community recognises World Population Day, a time of assessment, discussion and projections for the future that necessarily gives great weight to the rights of women and girls and particularly their sexual and reproductive health.

Saudi Women’s Rights Activists to File Prison Appeal Friday

By Lucy Westcott
Two Saudi Arabian women's rights activists are filing an appeal on Friday after being sentenced to 10 months in prison for helping a woman who had allegedly been abused by her husband.

War or Peace, Sri Lankan Women Struggle to Survive

By Amantha Perera
It has been four years since the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka’s northern Vanni region, after almost three decades of ethnic violence. Unfortunately peace does not mean the end of hardship for the most vulnerable people here: the women.

Time to Let Sudan’s Girls Be Girls, Not Brides

By Reem Abbas
Lawyers and rights activists are calling for a change in Sudan’s laws which allow for the marriage of girls as young as 10.

A Floral Touch to Employment in Kashmir

By Athar Parvaiz
As a little girl, Rubeena Begum had big plans: she would become a doctor and secure a decent income working in one of the 30 hospitals in the Himalayan state of Kashmir in north India.

Nepal Scores Low on Quality Education

By Mallika Aryal
Sabitri Kumari Das, a middle-aged mother of two, is rightfully worried about her two young daughters: both girls attend a public primary school in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and neither one of them seems to be advancing academically.

Kenya’s Mothers Shun Free Maternity Health Care

By Miriam Gathigah
It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth.

Bigger Dangers Lurk Behind Berlusconi Scandal

By Silvia Giannelli
The scandal around the under-age prostitute that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi allegedly had sex with is not about just that one girl: an estimated 10,000 under-age girls become victims of sexual exploitation every year in Italy.

Girls Fight Back Against Child Marriage

By Naimul Haq
Shirin Aktar was just 13 years old when her parents decided it was time for her to get married.

Leasehold Forestry Breathes New Life into Nepal

By Naresh Newar
Over 40 percent of Nepal is covered in thick forest, but most of it has been degraded. Rural communities that have traditionally relied on the forests for survival now live in abject poverty, struggling to secure the food necessary for survival. Most men have migrated to the Gulf in search of employment.

OP-ED: Moving Forward to End Violence Against Women

By Lakshmi Puri
Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.

Working to Save Malawi’s Mothers

By Mabvuto Banda
Charity Salima, 54, has helped to deliver over 4,000 babies in her maternity clinic in Area 23 – one of Malawi’s poorest and most populous townships – and has yet to record a single pregnancy-related death.
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