Tanzania: How Fetching Firewood Risks Women’s Lives
In rural areas, collecting fuel is not only exhausting, but leaves women vulnerable to violence and sexual abuse.
8 Mar 24
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“The Space for Abuse Seems Endless”
Gender disinformation aims to create a hostile environment for women with the goal of shaming, intimidating, silencing and excluding them.
6 Mar 24
Tajik Industrial Giant May Go on Sale
The government denies plans for quick sell-off of huge aluminium smelter, but some believe it will come sooner rather than later.
20 Nov 05
Romania: Defying Kompromat
“I couldn’t be bribed or stopped with death threats, but maybe I was supposed to be embarrassed enough by intimate pictures to be silenced.”
8 Mar 24
Afghanistan: “I Have Learned to Never Give Up”
What helps me keep going is my belief in our mission to empower women journalists to report on what is happening under the Taleban.
8 Mar 24
Special Report: Central Asian Neighbours Close Ranks
Regional leaders join China and Russia in stressing the need for US bases to close, and for external forces to stop meddling.
20 Nov 05
Cool Welcome for Meskhetians
Muslims exiled by Stalin are to be legally entitled to go back at last, but convincing many Georgians this is a good idea is likely to be a difficult task.
23 Nov 05
Trading in Misery
Tens of thousands of Eastern European women are falling victim to the Balkan sex trade.
6 Sep 05
Ugandan Women Risk Their Lives to Access Abortion
“Many girls are dying because we have chosen to ignore them.”
8 Mar 24
Afghanistan: “I Don’t Want to Live. I Want to Die”
Two decades of efforts to protect women and girls has been systematically dismantled.
6 Mar 24
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