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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

July 2024

  • A woman wearing Indigenous dress stands on a viewpoint above a lake

    The Guardian picture essay
    In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Screenshot of women celebrating

    Opinion
    Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

    Josephine Kamara
  • Young people gather on a hilltop called the 'roof of Tehran' to watch the sunset. Photo: Stefanie Glinski

    ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

  • Women behind the lens
    Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

  • Opinion
    What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

    Shrayana Bhattacharya

  • In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

June 2024

  • A woman poses in a crouch with a sword and shield in a training room

    Sword Granny: meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

  • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

    Rights and freedom
    Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

    Fawzia Koofi
  • A mural in Kolkata of a pensive woman looking cautiously from behind a wall, painted in dark monotones.

    India’s supreme court to rule on new penal code permitting marital rape

  • A mural showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking away and holding up her hands defensively.,

    Rights and freedom
    Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

  • Rights and freedom
    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

  • Lack of women at global tables of power hinders progress, says top UN official

  • ‘This goes beyond the church’: the Nigerian women in a sisterhood of millions

  • Bloodlines
    A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

  • Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

  • Argentina’s far-right president poised to shut down anti-gender violence agency

May 2024

  • 'Mother and Child', a sculpture by Rebecca Hawkins in St James's Square, London, for Justice for Lai Dai Han, commemorating victims of sexual violence<br>2B721PW 'Mother and Child', a sculpture by Rebecca Hawkins in St James's Square, London, for Justice for Lai Dai Han, commemorating victims of sexual violence

    Opinion
    Children of Vietnam war’s rape survivors unjustly bear the burden of others’ crimes

    Tran Thi Ngai
  • Chandan Fraser, Women's March 1971. Courtesy the artist and Four Corners. for My Best Shot

    My best shot
    A joyous and momentous march for liberation – Chandan (Sally) Fraser’s best photograph

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