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Sex workers and activists demonstrate on the eve of International Labour Day 2022 in Kolkata.

Labour rights

Selling sex, seeking respect: Life in India’s red-light districts

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by Khushboo Srivastava
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations from China in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Looking the other way is (not) an option

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by Selmin Çalışkan
Football training in Juja, Kenya.

Masculinity

What does it mean to be a man?

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by D+C / E+Z
Torchlight procession in Kolkata in August 2025, on the anniversary of the brutal rape of a female doctor in the city.

Gender equality

A city where women need panic buttons is not a safe city

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by Roli Mahajan

Sustainability

How biogas is changing daily life in rural Rwanda

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by Stella Tushabe
Aya Cissoko attends the first meeting of the Parliament of Francophone Women Writers in Orleans in 2018.

Books

Moving forward without losing sight of one’s roots

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by Dagmar Wolf
At an event in São Paulo in 2024, women commemorate the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.

Novel

How brave women fight back against oppression

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by Sinikka Soriya Dombrowski
The building of the German Parliament (Bundestag). There are fewer women in Parliament than in the previous legislative period.

Governance

Driving force or hindrance? Germany and the SDGs

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by Tobias Hauschild
A traditional jumping dance is part of the Enkipaata ceremony, a Maasai male rite of passage that is still practised today.

Gender studies

Evolving masculinities

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by Stephen Mutie
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