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
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Now living in comparative freedom in Iran, 26-year-old Mahtab Eftekhar describes facing motherhood at 12 and explains why seeking justice for other women means she no longer fears death
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Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls
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Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped
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Opinion#BringBackOurGirls fought to keep global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. Ten years on it is still fightingHelon HabilaThe campaign that came to prominence when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their classes in 2014 has had an impact beyond its first rallying cries
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Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists