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
April 2025
Rights and freedom
‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina
Lured by promises of an education but allegedly trapped in servitude and self-mortification, the former members are suing the ultra-conservative organisation over their ‘exploitation and abuse’
‘Impending doom’: 20 young Australian voters tell us what’s important to them this election
Almost 1,000 people responded when Guardian Australia asked about their attitudes and experiences in the lead-up to the federal election. Here’s a small sample of what they have to say
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
‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war
How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan
Rights and freedom
Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law
‘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
Women behind the lens
Women behind the lens: ‘In Cuba, domestic life is forced on to the streets’
Trump is tearing up US women’s rights. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works
Hibaaq Osman
‘We had all this energy’: the landmark gathering of women that unnerved the Chinese government
February 2025
‘Alarming’ data reveals high diabetes risk for pregnant women in English jails
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires
About 2,025 results for Women's rights and gender equality
Rights and freedom‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in ArgentinaLured by promises of an education but allegedly trapped in servitude and self-mortification, the former members are suing the ultra-conservative organisation over their ‘exploitation and abuse’
