Advancing the Human Rights of Women & Girls
Our world-leading gun control laws are being undermined as a result of decades of pressure from the well-funded and powerful gun lobby. Nowhere is this more evident than in New… Read more »
In Jinwar, north-eastern Syria, a pioneering group of women are rebuilding their lives away from the constraints of patriarchy The women’s revolution, as it is known, is a significant part… Read more »
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on country to implement strategies to prevent and prosecute femicides. With a population of more than 200 million, Brazil has only 74 shelters for… Read more »
Criminologists and sociologists are sounding the alarm over extreme and violent internet subcultures that include incels, saying the threat they pose isn’t being taken seriously enough. “It’s about their proprietary… Read more »
On Wednesday, thousands of people, including a large number of women, were seen lighting lamps along several stretches that connected north and south Kerala, in an apparent political message to… Read more »
Months after the Supreme Court of India allowed the entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 to enter the Sabarimala temple in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, not… Read more »
More than half of female murder victims last year globally, were killed by their partners or family members a new United Nations study has reported. Source: ‘Most dangerous place’ for… Read more »
The video of an in-game attack on an “annoying feminist” is a prime example of how endemic male rage against political women is in every aspect of our culture. On 28 October,… Read more »
Manoj Chaurasia, Patna and Hugh Tomlinson for The Times write: A mother has been burnt alive with her two young daughters by relatives in eastern India after she failed to… Read more »
Hugh Tomlinson for The Times writes: Women attempting to enter one of India’s holiest Hindu temples for the first time thanks to a court order were driven back by a… Read more »