women's day
Reader Submission / Leave it up to women to choose
A woman can and should have the choice to do whatever she wants.
Invest more to accelerate gender equality
Achieving gender equality requires collective effort from all members of society.
INT'L WOMEN'S DAY 2023 / 300 years needed to reach full gender equality
UN chief stresses the importance of having women's contribution in technology and innovation.
Using innovation and technology for gender equality
Digital transformation holds immense potential for accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Why every woman must ask for more
Every Women’s Day, I suffer from this ambivalent feeling of euphoria and despair.
What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence
The link between the structural and personal is continually at risk of getting obscured in favour of an individualist reading of interpersonal violence.
How medical evidence is used to discredit rape complainants
The need for corroborative or medical evidence to prove rape (and therefore these two rules) violates the global standards set by the UN and the WHO.
Voicing and challenging workplace sexual harassment in Bangladesh
Workplace sexual harassment is common in Bangladesh. It inhibits women from entering the labour market and is also a major reason why they drop out of work.
Caught between two pandemics
According to our study, 17 percent of women experienced physical abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic, 30 percent of them reported mental torture while 34 percent reported no harassment or abuse
Leave it up to women to choose
A woman can and should have the choice to do whatever she wants.
Invest more to accelerate gender equality
Achieving gender equality requires collective effort from all members of society.
300 years needed to reach full gender equality
UN chief stresses the importance of having women's contribution in technology and innovation.
Using innovation and technology for gender equality
Digital transformation holds immense potential for accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Why every woman must ask for more
Every Women’s Day, I suffer from this ambivalent feeling of euphoria and despair.
Caught between two pandemics
According to our study, 17 percent of women experienced physical abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic, 30 percent of them reported mental torture while 34 percent reported no harassment or abuse
Voicing and challenging workplace sexual harassment in Bangladesh
Workplace sexual harassment is common in Bangladesh. It inhibits women from entering the labour market and is also a major reason why they drop out of work.
How medical evidence is used to discredit rape complainants
The need for corroborative or medical evidence to prove rape (and therefore these two rules) violates the global standards set by the UN and the WHO.
What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence
The link between the structural and personal is continually at risk of getting obscured in favour of an individualist reading of interpersonal violence.
What we learnt about SRHR from our work with landless groups
How can a development organisation in Bangladesh truly reach the grassroots?