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
I was forced to have sex or I would not eat. Then I found a way to escape my traffickers
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I was 19 when I was tricked into travelling to Ivory Coast and sexually exploited, but now the police are helping me return to Nigeria
Rights and freedom
Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts
Pen used in assault on Manahel al-Otaibi, who has been imprisoned for 11 years for ‘terrorist’ tweets after secret trial
Women behind the lens
Women behind the lens: ‘I felt as if I was part of the family, like I had many grandmothers’
A journey across Iran allowed a glimpse into the lives of women living in extended families, rooted in tradition and patriarchy, yet rich in linguistic and cultural diversity
September 2024
‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit
Rights and freedom
Meryl Streep: ‘A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan’
Today in Focus
Inside a secret summit of Afghan women’s rights activists – podcast
The Guardian picture essay
‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations
The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
Global cost of failing to invest in women and gender equality is $10tn a year – UN
The Guardian view on tackling FGM: as progress slows, efforts must be redoubled
Rights and freedom
‘We will never stop fighting’: why Afghan women have risked their lives to attend a summit in Tirana
Rights and freedom
Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown
Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Rights and freedom
‘They are putting their lives on the line every day to report’: the woman standing up for female journalists against rising repression
Rights and freedom
The Observer view on Afghanistan: Britain and the US are complicit in the Taliban’s oppression of women
Women behind the lens
Women behind the lens: a journey into the dream world of the Sápara people of Ecuador
Gender equality stalling or going backwards for 1bn women and girls
‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making
‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future
Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices
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