Women

The Secretariat of the 5th edition of the  International Women’s Film Festival – Herat requests filmmakers to send in short or long feature and documentary films.

Thousands of young men have ‘disappeared’ in Kashmir and there have been numerous allegations of sexual assaults. But the fight for answers and justice continues.

It is hard to grasp how legal loopholes still exist in America that allow minors to marry. But they do, and with life-long consequences for the child involved. More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the last 15 years.

About 3.5 million children are out of school, 75% of them girls – not just because of violence but also a lack of female teachers, early marriage and social restrictions.

Afghan provincial officials reported a rise in girls’ enrolment rates across eastern Nangarhar Province, despite constant attacks and threats by Islamic State and other militant groups in the area.

Sixteen years after the US-led military intervention that ousted the Taliban government, an estimated two-thirds of Afghan girls do not go to school.

Women experience violence in all areas of society, in the so-called private sphere as well as in public, in institutions and at the workplace, and at all times, be it during peace or in times of armed conflict and war.

Gender equality, women’s empowerment and protection of women’s rights, are intrinsic to sustainable development and conflict prevention.

Women’s News                           I was interviewing and photographing a group of activist girls in Kampala, Uganda. Many were daughters of sex workers, all […]

Female guardians in the historical sources. Were it not for the timely intervention of women down the centuries, many an Islamic dynasty would have torn itself apart.