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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

May 2025

  • Photo of one of the women flogged by Taliban, Afghanistan

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban

    Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghanistan
  • A group of women stand in a staggered line in a hotel foyer, most wearing saris

    From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

    In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunities
  • Two women wearing T-shirts that read 'Bike Ladies' sit on motorbikes looking at each other. One wears a helmet, the other a sun visor

    On the road in Sierra Leone with Bombali’s ‘bike ladies’

    Mariama Timbo is a striking figure – and not because of her pink motorcycle. As the sole female biker in her province ferrying people and goods to town, she is now training a new generation of women to follow her lead

April 2025

  • A man in uniform walks past a car on the street holding a baby. A woman walks behind him

    Dominican Republic deports pregnant women in ‘inhumane’ migrant crackdown

  • Supreme court judge Oleg Nefyodov delivers a verdict lifting Russia’s ban on the Taliban

    Russia removes Taliban from list of banned terrorist groups

  • A hand holding a card with a prayer in Spanish and a photo of a priest

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

  • A yellow speech bubble with faces of politicians on crumpled paper

    ‘Impending doom’: 20 young Australian voters tell us what’s important to them this election

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

  • Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’

  • Opinion
    The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, we are culture, beauty and love

    Nada Al-Saqaf

March 2025

  • A young woman and man in military uniforms standing among trees and shrubs

    ‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war

  • A group of women wearing matching orange hijabs and grey coats stand in a sunny street in Karachi

    How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

  • A policeman in a hi-vis vest and beret stands on a city street as women in hijabs pass by

    Rights and freedom
    Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law

  • A girl with orange ribbons in her hair sits with her back to us in a green landscape

    ‘Shifting the shame’: the young gang-rape survivor spreading awareness on sexual violence

  • Women's right to choose
    A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

  • Women in business held back by mobile data’s cost in developing world – report

  • ‘We are all Natasha’: senator’s sexual harassment claims roil Nigeria

  • Devoted, dogged, defiant: the Mexican women who ‘sow the seeds of struggle’

  • Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business

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