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Pakistan’s education policy blatantly anti-minority, anti-women

The outcome of the school curriculum reason behind religious extremism, crimes against women

Why the ‘Me Too’ movement in India is succeeding at last

Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a...

Gender pay gap at universities could get even worse – here’s why

Britain has one of the largest gender pay gaps...

Richard Rolle: 14th-century theologian who could have taught modern men a thing or two about #MeToo

In around 1340 Richard Rolle, a 14th-century Yorkshire hermit...

Women Being Tortured For Demanding Basic Rights in ‘Reformist’ Mohammed Bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia 

Until recently, despite being abused, harassed and at times...

Pathbreakers: The Twentieth Century Muslim Women of India

‘Pathbreakers’, an initiative of Muslim women is taking the...

Justice denied – the Dharmapuri rape

On the night of November 12th 2018, more than...

‘Now, every woman knows she needs to fight violence everywhere’

Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to...

Why Does a Play Rile Islamists in Kerala?

An innocent play performed as part of an annual...

Angry women and insecure men: Hindi Cinema and the #MeToo Age

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