Women & Gender · April, 2025

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Women & Gender · April, 2025

Stories about Women & Gender from April, 2025

Gains and gaps in gender equality in North Macedonia

Significant disparities emerge among the individual indicators of gender equality analyzed by the World Economic Forum

Written by Kristina Hadzi-Vasileva

3 weeks ago

In Afghanistan, women and girls fight oppression through continued education

Online learning platforms for education and self-expression are crucial now

Written by Forus

3 weeks ago

Brazilian trans women parliamentarians categorized as ‘male’ on their US visas

Visas issued by the US government under Donald Trump use the male term, even though the politicians' documents recognise their female gender

Written by Luís Gustavo Carmo

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

3 weeks ago

‘We are not just imagining power; we are claiming it’: Women at the forefront of change in the Horn of Africa

Women continue to battle forced marriages, child labor, and a lack of social protections

Written by Forus

3 weeks ago

The new anti-LGBTQ+ bill proposed to the Turkish parliament, branded as a ‘manifesto of hate’

Submitted by an ultra conservative party, the draft bill sparks outcry

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

3 weeks ago

This Ghanaian software engineer is working to raise women's financial literacy

‘The future of money is already digital, and if we don’t understand it, we risk being left behind.’

Written by Zita Zage

4 weeks ago

Caribbean leaders and citizens recognise Pope Francis’ groundbreaking work

His compassion, advocacy for the poor, refugees and immigrants, and outreach to the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalised groups gained him many admirers

Written by Emma Lewis

4 weeks ago

‘What is normal?’: A trending question in Turkey

The question came in response to a men's football team's banner that read, 'What is natural is normal birth'

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

18 April 2025

Women are leading the fight against gender-based violence in northern Nigeria

"We cannot talk about peacebuilding while women live in fear inside their own homes."

Written by Peace News

11 April 2025

Under Taliban rule, women and girls in Afghanistan turn to drugs amid rising depression

A consequence of facing nothing but a bleak future and being denied the right to study and work

Written by Hasht-e-Subh Daily

10 April 2025

Trinbagonian poet Anthony V. Capildeo vies for the Caribbean's top literary award

Their poetry is described as 'immersed equally in narrative and lyric, querying forms with an insistent playfulness and a radical political consciousness'

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

9 April 2025

Toxic masculinity: Global narratives of control

We examine two key narratives shaping the debate around what many consider “men's and women's roles in society."

Written by Civic Media Observatory

8 April 2025

‘Women are the ones leading the revolution,’ says Peruvian journalist

'For the first time in my life as a journalist, I felt my work could be useful'

Written by Gabriela García Calderón Orbe

Translated by Gabriela García Calderón

5 April 2025

Bridging the funding gap for women entrepreneurs in Nigeria

Women business owners in Nigeria must overcome unconscious bias and societal constraints

Written by Pamela Ephraim

5 April 2025

Rumeysa Öztürk, PhD student from Turkey, among scores of people detained in the US

The student was snatched by ICE officers while on her way to break her Ramadan fast

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

4 April 2025

In Azerbaijan, the statutory rape of a minor sparks an outcry

The families of the victim and the perpetrator quietly arranged for a marriage ceremony when they learned of the girl's pregnancy

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

3 April 2025

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