One Small Step For Feminist Foreign Policy
This weekend’s meeting of female foreign ministers will be a historic achievement—and not nearly enough for the world’s women.
Botched Sterilisation Surgeries are Killing Indian Women. One Women Wants to Save Them
In a country where condoms, birth control pills and IUDs are hugely unpopular, many women turn to sterilisation. It’s costing them their lives.
From Prison To Periods: Meet The Men Fighting Menstruation Taboos
One way to change cultural attitudes towards menstruation? Bring bring men into the conversation, experts say.
They left sub-Saharan Africa for the promise of Europe. Now they face an uncertain future.
TARIFA, Spain — Mercy lay motionless on the bed, afraid to move as the stranger pulled up his trousers and refastened his belt. Even after he left, she remained frozen. An hour passed. Then another.…
Dispatch From Jaipur: ELLE Embeds With India’s Female Motorbike Police
Sitting on the back of police motorcycles, we held onto the thin-framed women steering in front of us as we zoomed down Jaipur’s bustling streets. It was a bright, hot day in April, and we…
The Café Run Entirely By Acid Attack Survivors
In Agra, a stone’s throw from the Taj Mahal, a group of women are refusing to hide.
One Year Ago, Tunisia Passed A Groundbreaking Law To Protect Women. Has It Worked?
A year on, activists are still struggling to change the broader culture.
The Bangladesh brothels where men pay child brides for sex – while police look the other way
Sex work is legal in Bangladesh. So is child marriage. Now in an exclusive investigation, The Telegraph and The Fuller Project can reveal the two have become intrinsically linked.
She was separated from her son for 9 months while seeking asylum. She’s still haunted by everything she missed.
"He’s never going to crawl for the first time again," says Mariana Ibarra Morán, who was separated from her son for 9 months.
Rebels With A Cause: The All Female Motorbike Squads Tackling India’s Rape Problem
A woman is raped every 13 minutes in India. As the situation reaches desperate proportions, one police commissioner thinks there might be an answer.
Colombia Was Just Starting To Deliver Justice To Women. Will A New President Get In The Way?
With the election of a new president, Colombia threw the future of its peace deal into uncertainty.
Amid Smoldering E-Waste In The West Bank, Activists Fight For Reform
Burning electronic waste to extract metals for resale is toxic, illegal, and common in the Palestinian Territories. Can activists forge a new path?
How Immigration Reporting Overlooks Women
Articles on immigration focused almost exclusively on border security, conflict and crisis. The absence of women’s voices from such coverage is striking.
Want To Wipe Out Terror In Somalia? Turn To Women
Because women need to shape policy and legislation to secure protection and advancement of women and girls.
Welcome To Puntland: Where Many Men Don’t Consider Rape A Crime
Every morning, 28-year-old Officer Shamis Abdi Bile rises before dawn to make breakfast for her three young children. She bustles around the house, taking part in a few of the traditional tenets homemaking, something that…
Center Framed: Women, Peace and Security On the Big Screen
Focusing on women in Liberia’s civil war, filmmakers Gini Reticker and Abigail Disney produced the award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
Teaching boys that ‘real men’ would stop rape
Isaac, a 15-year-old boy, watched as a group of men grabbed a young girl. It was a bustling new year’s eve in Kibera, Kenya’s largest slum, and he knew she was in trouble. He also…
Trolling The Patriarchy With Photos Of Battered Women – One Woman’s Quest To Change Russia’s Domestic Violence Laws
For Russian women's rights activist Alena Popova, battling the patriarchy is a full-time job.
