Women's Rights

Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

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...

Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Number of child marriages falling too slowly: UNICEF

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

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

Sarah Green Carmichael. Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

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
Middle East

Israeli women form human chains to protest planned judicial overhaul

Photo: Collected
World+Biz

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
World+Biz

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
World+Biz

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

Photo: AFP/BSS
World+Biz

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
Middle East

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
World+Biz

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
Thoughts

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
Panorama

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