Women's Rights

Women's Rights

Sketch: TBS

Are the legal rights and protections that mothers have in Bangladesh sufficient?

It is a good time to reflect and become aware of the legal rights and protections that mothers currently have, which may ease the stress and make motherhood a little easier for every “Maa, Ammuji...

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Number of child marriages falling too slowly: UNICEF

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'Smart Bangladesh aims to achieve technology-driven equal society for women and girls'

Sarah Green Carmichael. Sketch: TBS

Working women deserve more than lazy trend pieces

Women dressed in red form a human chain as part of a demonstration against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul and to mark International Women's Day, on a beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israeli women form human chains to protest planned judicial overhaul

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Women's Day events highlight major gaps in gender equality

People take part in a protest to mark International Women's Day in Madrid, Spain, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Juan Medina

Women's Day protesters rally for rights, with focus on Iran and Afghanistan

An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

UN warns of aid cuts over Taliban crackdown on women's rights

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Women first to suffer, last to be heard: UN Security Council hears

People light a fire during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo

Iran's future on UN women's rights body to be decided 14 Dec

An Afghan man stands in an amusement park in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

Women stopped from entering amusement parks in Afghan capital

Rwandan President Paul Kagame poses for a photograph with members of the Rwandan Parliament. PHOTO: PAUL KAGAME’S FLICKR ACCOUNT

How autocrats use women’s rights to boost themselves

Women's activist organisation Naripokkho formed a human chain and demanded immediate arrest and trial of constable Nazmul Tareq on 3 April. Photo: PR

A teep and the art of telling women what not to wear