Society / Women

Good news stories this month.

Support for the decriminalization of sex workers causes uproar. Cristiana Moisescu reports.

Fergus Simpson visits a hospital helping Congolese women and children recover from conflict-related trauma and violence.

Pro-choice advocacy groups have taken up new tactics in their struggle, writes Cristiana Moisescu.

Chris Brazier looks back at what NI was covering three decades ago.

Valeska Hovener and Marielle van Uitert hear how two Afghan women who have fled family abuse are learning to move on.

Janet Nicol reports on Canada's Highway of Tears.

Some light relief in Malaysia.

Lydia James talks to a young girls' group with a difference.

For the women left behind in Kashmir's border villages, life has its own challenges, as Sofi Lundin discovers.

Photographer Jannatul Mawa closes the distance between housewives and housemaids in Bangladesh.

A landmark case in Tunisia sees police rapists jailed.

A new law in Egypt is a positive step for women, but not the end of the struggle, says Chalaine Chang.

Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.

By Kate Smurthwaite.

Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.

What can different generations of feminists learn from one another? Leading Indian grassroots activist and author, 68-year-old Kamla Bhasin, connects with 16-year-old Londoner Lilinaz Evans, co-founder of the Twitter Youth Feminist Army. Facilitated by Hannah Pool.

From empowerment-lite to love-jihad, Rahila Gupta explores the perils of hijacked feminist agendas.

Nimko Ali is a brave, straight-talking, Somali British woman, who is revitalizing the campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM).

Women’s rights has got its mojo back – and not a minute too soon. Hazel Healy takes stock of the challenges ahead.