Gender

Women attending private Afghan universities must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face, the Taliban have ordered, and classes must be segregated by sex — or at least divided by a curtain....

Today on September 6, 2021, a workshop on the Network for Adolescent Rights Initiative (NARI) was held in the conference room of the AKS office in Bandarban. The session was led by Myamesing Marma, Project Coordinator...

Girls wearing white hijabs and black tunics crammed into classrooms in the western Afghan city of Herat just days after the Taliban’s takeover. As the school opened its doors, the students scurried down corridors and chatted...

As the Taliban continues to overrun major Afghan cities like Herat and Kandahar, many Afghan women are worried about their future under Islamist fundamentalist rule if the group takes control of the country. If the Taliban...

The government has traditionally looked the other way when it comes to child marriage. The Marriage Act and the Customary Marriages Act are the two sets of marriage laws in Zimbabwe. Neither statute establishes a minimum...

The Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday named Daisy Veerasingham as its president and chief executive officer, succeeding Gary Pruitt, who will retire at the end of the year. A first-generation British national of Sri Lankan descent,...

Strategic partners British Council, CCD Bangladesh and Mongol Deep Foundation will be organizing Bangladesh’s first ever online festival focusing on women and girls named ‘WOW Virtual Bangladesh’ from 29 to 30 July 2021 at 9.00 PM....

The e-commerce marketplace for women entrepreneurs, Laalsobuj.com, was officially inaugurated yesterday. Laalsabuj.com has been developed with a joint collaboration between “Tottho Apa Project: Empowerment of women through information communication technology with the aim of building a...

Dowry payments in India’s villages have been largely stable over the past few decades, a World Bank study has found. Researchers looked at 40,000 marriages that took place in rural India between 1960 and 2008. They...

According to the recent Gender Index of the World Benchmarking Alliance, two-thirds of the 35 major brands in the apparel industry have not yet declared gender equality and women’s empowerment as public policies. In comparison, only...