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Kamola Alieva, lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Women's rights activists

“The criminalisation of domestic violence was a milestone”

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by Kamola Alieva
The Green Wave has spread across Latin America: A policewoman raises her arm as she guards members of feminist collectives protesting in the streets of Mexico City in 2023. She wears a green ribbon in solidarity.

Misogyny and authoritarianism

When authoritarians are on the rise, it’s bad news for women’s rights

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by Macarena Sáez
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Alejandra Ancheita, feminist lawyer from Mexico.

Women's rights activists

“We have taken several transnational corporations to court”

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by Alejandra Ancheita
Students at the University of Algiers.

Women’s empowerment

Harmful impacts of stereotypes about Algerian female students

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by Khadidja Kelalech
Algerian anti-government protest held on the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2021.

Algerian feminist movement

Progress and setbacks

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by Khadidja Kelalech
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
At the 2024 Nalafem Summit in Windhoek, Namibia – a multigenerational platform for gender commitment in Africa.

Cross-border feminism

African women on the rise

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by Aya Chebbi

Social media

European democracies under attack from North America

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by Hans Dembowski

Gender equality

Uganda faces rising challenges in combating gender-based violence

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by Sheillah Abaho
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