Despite repeated pledges to promote gender parity in politics, women are dramatically underrepresented among candidates for July's elections.
Violence against women is perpetrated in order to sustain patriarchal power relations. Projects to prevent violence, through economic empowerment, must remember this.
Machismo is widespread in Mexico. One organisation takes aim at ‘negative masculinities’ with weekly group classes. Español
There will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families minister opposes abortion, immigration and LGBTI rights.
A new book, Transition Denied, exposes 'system failures' to protect vulnerable trans teenagers in Britain. This excerpt is from its prelude, by Synestra de Courcy’s mother.
Even if abortion is legalised in Ireland, this mindset must be challenged if women are to fully access their reproductive rights
2017 brought promising developments for intersex rights. But with much work still to be done, feminist allies must do better at sharing resources and opportunities.
It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation in the public sphere.”
