Women's rights and gender equality
A specific focus on the pressing issues affecting women, girls and
transgender people around the world, and the critical work being carried
out by women’s rights movements
The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Global cost of failing to invest in women and gender equality is $10tn a year – UN
The Guardian view on tackling FGM: as progress slows, efforts must be redoubled
Rights and freedom
‘We will never stop fighting’: why Afghan women have risked their lives to attend a summit in Tirana
Rights and freedom
Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdownReligious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Rights and freedom
‘They are putting their lives on the line every day to report’: the woman standing up for female journalists against rising repressionRights and freedom
The Observer view on Afghanistan: Britain and the US are complicit in the Taliban’s oppression of women
Women behind the lens
Women behind the lens: a journey into the dream world of the Sápara people of EcuadorGender equality stalling or going backwards for 1bn women and girls
‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making
‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future
Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices
‘When life gets hard, you must be harder’: running a takeaway kitchen in an Iraqi border town
Rights and freedom
‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in publicRights and freedom
‘I miss home’: 13-year-old Nigerian girls trapped and exploited in Ivory Coast sex industryRights and freedom
Fears grow for rights activists jailed in Iran after 87 executions in one month
‘What’s more important, my dream or the women of Afghanistan?’: breakdancer Manizha Talash on her Olympic protest
Thousands of Indian women protest after junior doctor’s rape and murder – video
Indian women march to ‘reclaim the night’ after doctor’s rape and murder
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