‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights
Amid the relentless clatter of machinery, Ravi Kumar Gupta feeds a roaring steel furnace with scrap, blown metal and molten iron. He carefully adds chemicals…
Olympic boxing champ Imane Khelif requires gender test to continue fighting | Olympics News
World Boxing says Algerian gold medallist must get genetic screening to compete in future events, including Olympics.Algeria’s Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif must undergo genetic…
Most LGBTQ adults in US don’t feel transgender people are accepted: Poll | LGBTQ News
By contrast, about six out of 10 LGBTQ adults said gay and lesbian people are generally accepted in the US. A new poll by the Pew…
‘She’s the queen’: Sri Lanka bids farewell to film legend Malini Fonseka | Cinema
Colombo, Sri Lanka — As a girl, when Srimathi Mallika Kaluarachchi would go to the cinema with her family, and a man on the screen…
Murdered live on TikTok – Mexico’s femicide crisis | Gender Equity News
Mexico’s femicide crisis is back in the headlines after beauty influencer Valeria Marquez was murdered on a live stream.The world was shocked when a gunman…
US Supreme Court allows ban on transgender troops to take effect | Donald Trump News
The United States Supreme Court has allowed a ban on transgender military members to take effect while legal challenges over the restriction continue. On Tuesday,…
UK court defines ‘woman’. Trans women left in limbo | Gender Equity News
UK court rules ‘woman’ means biological sex, a decision that could limit trans women’s access to services and rights.The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled…
Namibia’s first female president: From freedom fighter to reformer? | Elections
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on rising to power as Namibia’s first female leader and whether real change is possible.Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history as Namibia’s first…
Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law | Gender Equity News
Bardiya, Nepal – Bali, unlike most girls around her, never liked to sing and dance. She loved cars and dreamed of how it would feel…
Thousands of women march against femicide in Argentina | Women’s Rights
NewsFeedThousands of women took to the streets of Buenos Aires on International Women’s Day to protest Argentinian President Javier Milei’s’ plans to remove the crime…
Trump administration to ban transgender people from military enlistment | Donald Trump News
The United States military has announced it will no longer accept transgender people hoping to enlist, or facilitate gender affirmation procedures for active service members.…
What’s behind Trump’s ban on transgender women in US women’s sports? | Explainer News
United States President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that bans transgender girls and women from participating in women’s sports in schools and other…
Trump to sign executive order on transgender female athletes
President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or…
What do Trump’s executive orders on workplace diversity programmes say? | Civil Rights News
President Donald Trump has begun scaling back equal-opportunity programmes through two executive orders on his first day in the White House. Through these, he has…
Jubilation as Thailand’s marriage equality law comes into effect | LGBTQ News
Thailand has become the first country in Southeast Asia, and only the third in Asia, to legalise same-sex marriage.Hundreds of couples are tying the knot…
The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer | Entertainment
In the late months of 1949, aspiring American writer William S Burroughs evaded gun and drug charges in the United States by bringing his family…
‘Something has been taken away’: Pakistan’s well-kept FGM secret | FGM
Seven-year-old Mariam was excited. Her mother had dressed her up in her favourite powder pink frock, with her hair in two pigtails held with butterfly…
Police fire tear gas at Kenya protesters rallying against femicide | Police News
Hundreds gather in Kenya’s capital to rally against gender-based violence.Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who gathered to protest…
Walt Disney agrees to pay $43.3m to settle pay discrimination suit | Women’s Rights News
The suit was filed in 2019 after the plaintiff learned that six men with same job title earned substantially more.Walt Disney has agreed to pay…
Republicans support bathroom ban after US transgender lawmaker elected | Politics News
Republicans have pushed an effort barring the first federal transgender lawmaker from women’s restrooms in the US Capitol.The Republican majority leader in the US House…