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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

September 2024

  • A small group of people on rocky ground next to a body of water holding placards, one reads 'Tunisia government is killing us slowly, we need help'

    The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

  • A teenage girl in a hijab seen from above as she writes on a sheet of paper

    Global cost of failing to invest in women and gender equality is $10tn a year – UN

  • Women in the Gambia with placard that reads: 'FGM/C is not a religious obligation'

    The Guardian view on tackling FGM: as progress slows, efforts must be redoubled

  • Afghan in Tirana 2

    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’

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    ‘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

August 2024

  • Women stand around a table preparing vegetables

    ‘When life gets hard, you must be harder’: running a takeaway kitchen in an Iraqi border town

  • Two women, covered head to toe in white robes, walk down the street in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public

  • A woman seen from behind standing in a gated doorway

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I miss home’: 13-year-old Nigerian girls trapped and exploited in Ivory Coast sex industry

  • Two veiled women in a prison cell

    Rights and freedom
    Fears grow for rights activists jailed in Iran after 87 executions in one month

  • ‘What’s more important, my dream or the women of Afghanistan?’: breakdancer Manizha Talash on her Olympic protest

  • Thousands of Indian women protest after junior doctor’s rape and murder – video

  • Indian women march to ‘reclaim the night’ after doctor’s rape and murder

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