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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

August 2024

  • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

    She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

  • Devi Khadka, holding up her hand among a group of women in the documentary film Devi.

    Rights and freedom
    Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

July 2024

  • Fawzia, Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.

    Today in Focus
    The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence – podcast

  • Susanna Rustin

    Dramatic deeds are remembered, but too many feminists of the past are forgotten

    Susanna Rustin
  • A girl wearing a white dress and angel's wings stands in a room with supernatural light coming through cracks in the ceiling.

    Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    Rights and freedom
    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

  • MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation

  • The Guardian picture essay
    In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

  • UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Opinion
    Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

    Josephine Kamara

  • ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

  • Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

  • Opinion
    What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

    Shrayana Bhattacharya

  • In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

June 2024

  • A woman poses in a crouch with a sword and shield in a training room

    Sword Granny: meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

  • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

    Rights and freedom
    Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

    Fawzia Koofi
  • A mural in Kolkata of a pensive woman looking cautiously from behind a wall, painted in dark monotones.

    India’s supreme court to rule on new penal code permitting marital rape

  • A mural showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking away and holding up her hands defensively.,

    Rights and freedom
    Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

  • Rights and freedom
    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

  • Lack of women at global tables of power hinders progress, says top UN official

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