feminism
Pressure on girls for perfect body ‘worse than ever’, says Orbach
Health & Fitness
November 11, 2018
Pressure on girls for perfect body ‘worse than ever’, says Orbach
Girls and young women are under more pressure than ever to achieve the perfect body in an oppressive social…
#ShameOnWho campaign uses art to change Lebanese attitudes to rape
Middle East
November 8, 2018
#ShameOnWho campaign uses art to change Lebanese attitudes to rape
BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The hashtag #ShameOnWho? is being deployed as part of a new street art campaign…
Pregnant Meghan the star as Pacific royal tour ends
Life & Style
October 31, 2018
Pregnant Meghan the star as Pacific royal tour ends
Prince Harry and pregnant wife Meghan visited the New Zealand resort town of Rotorua Wednesday to wrap up a…
Tradition, and mobs, keep women out of Indian temple
World
October 19, 2018
Tradition, and mobs, keep women out of Indian temple
At the Indian temple that is the focus of a battle over gender equality, Hindu hardliners are in festive…
Deadly blast hits female candidate’s rally in Afghanistan
Middle East
October 15, 2018
Deadly blast hits female candidate’s rally in Afghanistan
A bombing attack hit an electoral rally in Afghanistan as a female candidate was about to give a speech.…
UK schoolgirls have been pressured by peers to have FGM, campaigner says
Life & Style
September 19, 2018
UK schoolgirls have been pressured by peers to have FGM, campaigner says
Some schoolgirls in the United Kingdom have been pressured by their peers into undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM), according…
Lebanese author, feminist Emily Nasrallah dies at age 87
Middle East
March 15, 2018
Lebanese author, feminist Emily Nasrallah dies at age 87
Acclaimed Lebanese author and feminist Emily Nasrallah, who articulated women’s experiences in her writing about Lebanon’s civil war, has died…
Oprah Winfrey: ‘For too long women have not been heard or believed’
Culture
January 8, 2018
Oprah Winfrey: ‘For too long women have not been heard or believed’
Oprah Winfrey accepted her Cecil B. DeMille Award on Sunday night at the Golden Globes with a message to the young…
The ugly truth behind Saudi Arabia’s love for Melania Trump
Features/Interviews
May 23, 2017
The ugly truth behind Saudi Arabia’s love for Melania Trump
Donald Trump’s first major trip overseas may be fraught with diplomatic land mines for the President, but the Trump administration…
NYCxDesign: Women designers tackle inequality in New York
Life & Style
May 17, 2017
NYCxDesign: Women designers tackle inequality in New York
On the tails of Milan’s massive design week in April, New York City’s citywide festival of design, NYCxDesign–which runs through…