Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Pakistan’s politically assertive women

Against the backdrop of the global #MeToo movement, a new wave of feminist politics swelled up in Pakistan. It asserts the right of women and queer people to inhabit public spaces without fear of harassment and violence.

Gender relations

A brief history of rape law in Pakistan

Why Victorian norms still permeate South Asian laws

Rule of law

Improving rape victims’ access to the courts

Pakistan ends shameful practice of virginity testing in prosecution of sexualised violence

Hintegrund

Be fruitful and multiply

In Nigeria childless couples face ostracism – and women suffer in particular Webheadline: Infertility is a human -rights issue

Gender equality

Successes and setbacks in women's equality

Despite the pandemic, UNICEF never lost sight of its commitment to gender equality

Disability

Empowering women and changing minds

Civil-society organisations are calling for the empowerment of disabled women who have experienced violence

Disempowerment

Where women work and men decide

According to a Burundian saying, he who lacks a good woman lacks wealth

Emancipation

Women are slowly asserting themselves in MENA region

In Arab countries, examples prove that patriarchal family traditions can indeed be changed

Gender justice

To empower women, pass and enforce laws

Africa needs more women in positions of leadership, and that will require socio-cultural change

Women’s empowerment

Double burden of household work and earning money

As in many developing countries, masses of women are slaving away in Nigeria’s informal sector

Women’s rights

How illiteracy perpetuates oppression of Pakistani women

Half of Pakistan’s women cannot read or write in any language