Prosecutors accuse disgraced former Hollywood mogul of sexually assaulting woman in Manhattan hotel in 2006. Disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to a new sexual assault charge, years after accusations that he abused dozens of women made him the public face of the #MeToo movement in…
The number of liberal young women has skyrocketed over the past two decades and their views on key issues have swayed further to the left, according to an analysis of more than 20 years of polling data. An average of 40% of women 18 to 29 years old identified themselves…
Inji Efflatoun – artist, feminist and communist in mid-20th-century Egypt, was jailed for her political activism. An artist, communist, feminist and a champion of the poorest people in Egypt – this is the story of the painter and political activist, Inji Efflatoun. She was born in 1924 into a traditional…
Hong Kong, China – A 36-year-old foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong was on her way to throw out the rubbish when her Swedish employer arrived home late one night in October 2022. X, as she was known in court to protect her identity, said he appeared to be drunk….
Kandabari, India – On a sunny morning in Kandabari village in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, a group of students is learning to code in a classroom. Kriti Kumari, 19, is one of 31 women at the Sapna Center, which trains rural women from marginalised backgrounds and requires…
Sydney, Australia – Sam Hall, an Aboriginal woman from Ormiston in southeast Queensland, was 40 weeks pregnant when she felt her baby’s movements slow. She was already anxious about her son’s safety – earlier scans had found possible problems with her pregnancy, and her partner had genetic heart issues. But…
Misogyny, ‘Islamism’ and far-right ‘extremism’ among trends to be analysed, Home Office says. UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the United Kingdom’s counterterrorism strategy on how to best tackle threats by “extremist ideologies” including misogyny. Other ideological trends to be investigated by the Home Office include…
Thousands march in streets of Kolkata as authorities struggle to contain demonstrations calling for justice. Some Indian junior doctors have remained off the job as they demanded swift justice for a colleague who was raped and murdered, despite the end of a strike called by a large doctors’ association, as…
Indian doctors observed a nationwide strike, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channelled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at a state-run hospital in Kolkata, the capital of the eastern state of…
Hospitals hit by 24-hour shutdown as protests demanding protection for health workers and condemning violence swell. Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital in the…
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