‘Just write STOP’: the teenager helping Polish women flee abuse
In April 2020, weeks after Poland went into its first Covid-19 lockdown, Krysia Paszko, a 17-year-old highschool pupil, watched a
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Women's rights and gender equality
Nepal proposes ‘ridiculous’ ban on women travelling without permission
A proposed regulation in Nepal that might ban women from travelling overseas without permission from their households and native authorities
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Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty
In the coffee-farming communities of the Peruvian Amazon, the classroom is a route out of poverty. Gabriela was finding out
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Decades of progress on extreme poverty now in reverse due to Covid
Two many years of progress in the discount of extreme poverty, the elimination of which is one of the sustainable
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Landmark hearing to examine handling of domestic abuse cases by courts
A landmark hearing within the court docket of enchantment is below approach to examine how cases of domestic abuse are
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From Yemen to the UK: Noor’s story of forced marriage and fleeing her home – podcast
Anushka Asthana talks to Noor*, 29, who escaped from Yemen when her life was threatened as a result of of
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Gender conversion ‘therapy’ made me suicidal. I fear for other young Nigerians
When I was 9, my dad and mom took me to a conventional healer. He used a razor to make
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Why doing nothing is a radical act for India’s women – photo essay | Global development
When Surabhi Yadav’s mom, Basanti, died Yadav realised she had by no means actually recognized her. “I knew her as
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