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Mary Gaudron Changed Who Could Interpret Australia’s Constitution
Mary Gaudron, the first woman appointed to Australia’s High Court, has died aged 83. Her career linked a breakthrough for women in law with decisions on Indigenous land rights, discrimination and the dignity of work.
Lalremsiami’s Asian Games Ambition Begins With a Dirt Pitch in Mizoram
India forward Lalremsiami has turned a barefoot childhood route into an international hockey career and a bid for Asian Games gold. Her longer goal—building facilities for girls in Mizoram—shows why a sporting breakthrough matters most when it widens the path behind it.
One Narail Family Put Four Women on Bangladesh’s Table Tennis Roster. That Is What a Sports Pipeline Can Look Like
Five-time champion Sonam Sultana Soma, Nowrin Sultana Mahi, Sadia Rahman Mou and Samanta Hossain Tushi come from the same extended family. Their rise from a Narail club to the national team shows how girls progress when family support, coaching, training partners and financial backing exist at the same time.
Zahra Joya Refuses to Let Afghanistan’s Women Vanish From the Record
In a new interview, Afghan journalist Zahra Joya connects her own forbidden education to the reporters still documenting life under Taliban rule. Her testimony shows why women’s journalism is not merely representation: it is evidence against enforced erasure.
Zahra Joya Refuses to Let Afghanistan’s Women Vanish From the Record
In a new interview, Afghan journalist Zahra Joya connects her own forbidden education to the reporters still documenting life under Taliban rule. Her testimony shows why women’s journalism is not merely representation: it is evidence against enforced erasure.
Green Women’s Misogyny Claims Test Whether a Progressive Party Listens Inward
Women in England and Wales’s Green Party say they have been sidelined, patronised or intimidated and want the autumn conference to order structural reforms. The allegations are not findings of misconduct, but they pose a legitimate test of whether an equality platform is reflected in internal practice.
Emma Bonino Turned a Private Ordeal Into Half a Century of Public Freedom
Italian civil-rights leader Emma Bonino, who died on 11 September aged 78, transformed her experience of illegal abortion into a campaign that helped change national law. Her larger legacy is a warning that rights survive only when people keep organising to defend them.
Bangladesh Reached the Asia Cup Semifinal. The Next Level Is Turning Chances Into Pressure
Before facing India, Sharmin Akhter said aspiring champions have to play the strongest teams. Bangladesh’s 40-run semifinal defeat showed exactly what that next level demands: sharper fielding, more batting pressure and fewer opportunities handed back to elite opponents.
Rumeen Farhana Criticised the Government. Parliament Erupted. Her Right to Be Heard Should Not Depend on Agreement
Independent MP Rumeen Farhana’s criticism of the government over energy shortages, loan defaults and banking policy triggered loud protests from ruling-party lawmakers. In a parliament where only seven women won constituency seats, protecting substantive disagreement matters for women’s political voice as much as representation itself.
Eva Umlauf’s Warning After an AfD Victory Is About Memory—and Who Feels Safe Now
The Auschwitz survivor says the far right’s electoral advance in Saxony-Anhalt has frightened minority communities. Her intervention links historical remembrance to present-day choices about migration, education and democratic power.
Three Afghan Sisters Keep Studying After Deportation Closed Every Official Door
Maahi, Shallah and Fatimah were expelled from Iran into a country where the Taliban bars girls from secondary school and women from university. Their unofficial lessons in Herat show both the determination of Afghan girls and the cost of policies that refuse to recognise their education.
Francesca Albanese Says Britain’s Settlement-Trade Ban Must Be a Beginning
The UN special rapporteur welcomed Britain’s proposed ban on trade with Israeli settlements while arguing that goods alone are too narrow a test of legal consistency. Her intervention asks whether a policy reset will change material relationships or simply its language.
Sudanese Women in Egypt Describe the Price of Survival Without Protection
Refugee women and girls who escaped Sudan’s war say poverty, insecure legal status and shrinking aid are exposing them to sexual exploitation in Egypt. Their testimony shifts attention from border crossings to the conditions that determine whether refuge is actually safe.
Quechua Women in Cusco Are Turning Literacy Into Local Authority
A mobile community school in rural Peru has helped 200 Quechua-speaking women learn to read and write and at least 100 complete basic education. Its success rests on adapting education to women’s lives and recognising knowledge they already hold.
An Iranian Wedding Became a Test of Whether Civilian Harm Will Be Accounted For
Women and children waiting for a wedding celebration in southern Iran were caught in a deadly strike now under US review. Their testimony and the physical evidence make civilian protection—and a transparent investigation—the story, not a footnote to military claims.
Sarah Franklin’s Career ‘Jungle Gym’ Makes Room for Sideways Ambition
Lattice chief executive Sarah Franklin describes a career built through lateral moves, technical fluency and access she had to create for herself. Her experience offers a useful counterweight to the corporate ladder, while leaving room to ask how leaders widen access for others.
Lida Moniava Refuses to Leave Russia—or Stop Naming the War
A Moscow court has restricted children’s-hospice founder Lida Moniava while she awaits trial over anti-war posts. Her case shows how a woman best known for building care has turned the language of care into a challenge to state power.
Three Lebanese Generations Describe a War That Never Stays in the Past
UN Women’s new oral-history feature follows a grandmother, mother and girl living through repeated conflict in Lebanon. Their accounts show how war changes education, care and expectations long after a strike ends.
Gloria Steinem Made Women’s Experience a Source of Public Power
The US feminist writer and organiser died on 2 September at 92. Her lasting contribution was not simply becoming a recognisable face of feminism, but helping women turn experiences dismissed as private into journalism, institutions and collective demands.
Three Lebanese Generations Describe a War That Never Stays in the Past
UN Women’s new oral-history feature follows a grandmother, mother and girl living through repeated conflict in Lebanon. Their accounts show how war changes education, care and expectations long after a strike ends.
Syria’s Kurdish Women Fighters Want a Future They Helped Win
The YPJ became an international symbol in the campaign against Islamic State. Its members are now asking Syria’s new authorities for an organised security role, making their status a test of whether women’s wartime authority survives political transition.
Guatemalan Women Say a Revived Gold Mine Could Drain the Water Beneath Their Homes
Construction has resumed at the Era Dorada gold project despite longstanding community opposition. Women living near the mine and downstream wetlands fear that water loss or contamination could threaten household survival, farming and fishing
Anaya Bangar Says Australia Gave Her Back a Cricket Future
Cricket Australia has opened a conditional route for transgender Indian player Anaya Bangar to pursue elite women’s cricket. Her case exposes sharply different international rules—and the need to discuss competitive fairness without stripping an athlete of dignity.
Soweto Mothers Say Care Must Include the Person They Are Becoming
Longitudinal interviews show young mothers balancing love, financial pressure, altered ambitions and changing identities. Maternal services often address pregnancy and infant health without supporting that transition.
Liberian Women’s Advocates Warn Sweden’s Exit Is More Than a Budget Cut
Sweden’s bilateral aid programme in Liberia ends today after supporting women’s health, rights and peacebuilding for years. Liberian activists say the withdrawal threatens local organisations whose work cannot be replaced quickly by larger international institutions.
Dolly Parton Gave Working Women Language for Lives Pop Culture Often Ignored
Parton rarely adopted a formal feminist label, but her songwriting repeatedly examined women’s labour, double standards and autonomy. Her death invites attention to the social record embedded in her music.
Greenland’s Contraception Inquiry Must Not Let a Legal Dispute Eclipse Women’s Testimony
Two reports disagree over how international law applies to Denmark’s contraception campaign in Greenland. Whatever legal classification ultimately emerges, the evidence establishes profound violations of Indigenous women’s bodily autonomy.
Period Pain Should Not Be a Test of How Much a Woman Can Endure at Work
A fresh call for menstrual leave in Bangladesh is reopening an uncomfortable workplace question: should women experiencing severe period symptoms have to choose between their health, attendance record and professional reputation?
Women Athletes Deserve a Better Debate Than Biology Versus Belonging
New sex-eligibility rules have intensified disagreement over transgender and intersex participation in women’s sport. Athletes need policies grounded in evidence, privacy and procedural fairness—not hostility directed at individuals.
Women Athletes Deserve a Better Debate Than Biology Versus Belonging
New sex-eligibility rules have intensified disagreement over transgender and intersex participation in women’s sport. Athletes need policies grounded in evidence, privacy and procedural fairness—not hostility directed at individuals.
Married Girls in Nigeria Are Asking for Education, Not Erasure
Testimony gathered in northern Nigeria shows that marriage and motherhood do not end girls’ educational ambitions. The real barrier is a system that often stops seeing them as students—or even as children.
Women’s Equality Day Must Remember Who the Nineteenth Amendment Left Behind
The US observance commemorates women’s suffrage, but an accurate history must recognise that many Black, Indigenous, Asian American and other women remained excluded after 1920.
Women’s Online Abortion Accounts Reveal the Human Cost Behind U.S. Policy
New research examines how women describe medication-abortion experiences online following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. These accounts may document barriers that clinical and government data fail to capture.
tudy Links Partners’ Objectification of Other Women to Lower Wellbeing HOLD — independent expert interpretation required before publication.
New research examines whether repeatedly seeing a partner objectify other women can affect women’s body image, self-esteem and relationship satisfaction.