It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
Anti-choice activists at the United Nations argue that rural women need food, not reproductive choice. But unsafe abortions kill women.
Pregnant teenagers face expulsion from school, arrests, even death. The backlash against sex education in Africa is punishing our girls, and must end now.
At the Commission on the Status of Women, commitments to rural women’s empowerment are under threat. Can new, progressive alliances block advances by reactionary delegations?
In 1993, the Polish government took away our right to abortion – starting a war on women’s bodies which continues to this day.
The so-called centre-right coalition is talking tough against Italy’s LGBTQI and immigrant communities, attacking basic rights in the name of defending the “traditional family.”
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland, researcher Marilyn Mayo in the US, and Akanksha Mehta at the University of Sussex.
“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy and feminism are interlinked.
