Black women were disproportionately jailed and mistreated in London’s infamous Holloway prison. This is an edited extract from “Bad Girls, A History of Rebels and Renegades”.
A regressive law to boost the population has restricted the reproductive choices and rights of all Iranian women. Though some suffer more than others.
Refusing to be silent, women are leading research, campaigns and new strategies to stop trolls and create safer online spaces.
The San Fermín festival has become known for reports of sexual violence. But local officials say it’s a good thing that more women are disclosing attacks. Español.
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
It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
Joyce Sheppard talks about the campaign to save South Yorkshire’s Women’s Aid – one of many domestic violence services impacted by government cuts.
Last month’s Commission on the Status of Women talks failed to tackle corporate impunity, despite increasingly recognised risks to women human rights defenders.
