Taliban stop women from working for aid organisations
Female employees of NGOs told to stop coming to work in latest move to curtail women’s freedoms in Afghanistan Women in Kabul protest earlier this […]
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Elnaz Rekabi: Iranian climber ‘says hijab fell off accidentally’ at competition
By David Gritten BBC News A female Iranian climber who competed with her hair uncovered did so because her hijab fell off “inadvertently”, a post […]
Iran unrest: Women burn headscarves at anti-hijab protests
By David Gritten and Oliver Slow BBC News IMAGE SOURCE,TWITTERImage caption, A woman set fire to her headscarf during a protest in Tehran on Monday […]
Obituary: Queen Elizabeth II
By BBC NEWS IMAGE SOURCE,CHRIS LEVINE/ JERSEY HERITAGE TRUST The long reign of Queen Elizabeth II was marked by her strong sense of duty and […]
Iranian women who need certificates to prove they are virgins
By Firouzeh Akbarian & Sofia Bettiza BBC World Service IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES In Iran, virginity before marriage is important for many girls and their families. […]
‘I felt silenced by my abortion for a decade – the stigma is worse for black and Asian women’
Shanice Tomlinson had an abortion when she was 14. She is now speaking out about it a decade later to help other women – particularly […]
Roe is over. Prison sentences are on the way.
Women are being incarcerated for their family planning decisions, and the floodgates on new punishments are about to open. Purvi Patel is taken into custody […]
Nadine Dorries says elite women’s events should be ‘reserved for people born of female sex’
BBC Sport Dorries hosted a meeting on transgender inclusion in sport Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has told the heads of UK sporting bodies that “elite […]
Johnson says biological males ‘should not compete in female sporting events’
PM also says women should have ‘dedicated’ spaces, amid fallout over decision to exclude trans conversion practices from ban Boris Johnson: ‘biological males shouldn’t be […]
Black Women Photographers on what International Women’s Day means to them
We hear from a some of the members of the Black Women Photographers collective, a group facilitating greater diversity in editorial photography By Matt Fidler […]