You are here: Homepage Tag women’s rights Articles Adeeb al-Janani, a reporter for the private Yemeni television station Belqees TV, was killed at the airport in Aden on 30 December 2020 while reporting on the return of the Yemeni government from negotiations in Saudi Arabia. A large crowd of people attended his funeral in Taizz Photo: Hussam Al-Qoliaa Freedom of the press | Yemen Assassinated, imprisoned, exiled A complex civil war with international involvement has been raging in Yemen for years. It is extremely dangerous for journalists to pursue their profession, Yemeni journalists still pay a heavy price for the civil war. Many have left the country and young reporters with no training are taking their place By Samia al-Aghbary 10/17/2024 Photo: Mauricio Sierra Indigenous rights | Mexico “We need to be loud every day” Born into a rural Indigenous community, Eufrosina Mendoza Cruz was hardly destined to pursue a political career. Yet, she championed the rights of Mexican Indigenous women, becoming both an activist and a member of parliament. A conversation about self-determination and perseverance Interview with Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza 09/07/2024 Illustration: Victoria Villasana Women’s rights | Mexico Women’s rights on the agenda In Mexico, there’s often a gap between women’s rights on paper and in reality: Violence against women is rampant, many girls fall pregnant, unpaid care work is mostly on women’s shoulders. Five feminist activists take stock: what has improved, what still needs to be done? 09/07/2024 Illustration: Victoria Villasana Women’s rights | Mexico He said, she Brutal violence against women is not uncommon in Mexico. The writer Gabriela Jauregui has collected quotes from perpetrators in court, creating a harrowing poem By Gabriela Jauregui 09/07/2024 Zehra Khan has founded the Home Based Women Workers Federation in 2009 Photo: Natalia Bronny Trade unions | Pakistan Invisible women workers in Pakistan Women working from home are an important economic factor in Pakistan, but they are often isolated and deprived of their rights. The Home Based Women Workers Federation campaigns for change By Hannah El-Hitami 04/30/2024 Photo: Bas Losekoot Family life | South Korea The silent protest of women in South Korea The East Asian country has a demographic problem: its population is ageing rapidly but many women have no desire to have children By Hawon Jung 04/30/2024 Women’s rights | Mexico A burning issue in Mexico City Mexican perpetrators of acid attacks, in particular against women, are often punished with light sentences or released on bail. A new draft law wants to change all that By Camila Martinez 06/01/2023 A Taliban fighter sits on the shoulders of anonymized women who can’t speak out and whose hands are bound Illustration: Uzra Shamal for KULTURAUSTAUSCH Media | Afghanistan Cartoons vs. the Taliban What does it mean to report on politics in Afghanistan? The Afghan journalist Uzra Shamal talks about her work and why she chose an unusual form of reporting: the cartoon 10/14/2022 Zakira: “Not only my body is locked up at home, but also my mind” Photo: Sayed Aman Sadat Vox pop | Afghanistan “How are you doing?” When the Taliban came to power, women in Afghanistan lost almost everything overnight: their rights, their jobs, their dignity. What are their concerns today? We asked Afghan women for a selfie, and asked the question: how are you doing? 10/01/2022 Women’s rights | Afghanistan Patriarchal darkness Education, work, marriage: over the years, the rights of Afghan women have been fiercely contested. A chronology of an eventful history By Huma Ahmed-Ghosh 10/01/2022 Journalist and women's rights activist Mahbouba Seraj Photo: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Women’s rights | Afghanistan “We’re steering towards catastrophe” Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a “failed state”, says journalist and women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj. And it's the West’s power politics that are partly to blame Interview with Mahbouba Seraj, Natalie Amiri 10/01/2022 The maternity ward at Indira Ghandi Hospital in Kabul Photo: Moises Saman / Magnum Photos / Agentur Focus Health care | Afghanistan On the road in a sick nation Even before the Taliban seized power, health care for Afghan women and girls was sub-standard. Now it is catastrophic: a visit to the provinces By Parand 10/01/2022 Photo Robin Utrecht / picture alliance Black and white thinking “Do you want a bodyguard?” Threatened from all sides, the young author Lale Gül is paying a high price for her self-determination By Lale Gül 04/14/2022 A collage of hand paintings in the “Cave of Hands” in Patagonia, dating back to between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago. Today historians can tell the gender of the people who made them Photo: Hubert Stadler / Corbis / Getty Images Books | Prehistory The hands of women Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory By Christina von Braun 01/07/2022 Photo: Magda Hueckel Literature | Poland “Our trauma has a million faces” The writer Joanna Bator is one of the most important voices of contemporary Polish literature. Her new novel is about angry women and women and deep psychological wounds. Is that coincidence or a statement? Interview with Joanna Bator 07/01/2021 Photo: Jasper James/Gallerystock Fiction | South Korea A South-Korean woman’s life In her novel, author Cho Nam-Joo tells of a South Korean woman who is caught between tradition and hypermodernity By Sabine Scholl 04/01/2021
Adeeb al-Janani, a reporter for the private Yemeni television station Belqees TV, was killed at the airport in Aden on 30 December 2020 while reporting on the return of the Yemeni government from negotiations in Saudi Arabia. A large crowd of people attended his funeral in Taizz Photo: Hussam Al-Qoliaa Freedom of the press | Yemen Assassinated, imprisoned, exiled A complex civil war with international involvement has been raging in Yemen for years. It is extremely dangerous for journalists to pursue their profession, Yemeni journalists still pay a heavy price for the civil war. Many have left the country and young reporters with no training are taking their place By Samia al-Aghbary 10/17/2024
Photo: Mauricio Sierra Indigenous rights | Mexico “We need to be loud every day” Born into a rural Indigenous community, Eufrosina Mendoza Cruz was hardly destined to pursue a political career. Yet, she championed the rights of Mexican Indigenous women, becoming both an activist and a member of parliament. A conversation about self-determination and perseverance Interview with Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza 09/07/2024
Illustration: Victoria Villasana Women’s rights | Mexico Women’s rights on the agenda In Mexico, there’s often a gap between women’s rights on paper and in reality: Violence against women is rampant, many girls fall pregnant, unpaid care work is mostly on women’s shoulders. Five feminist activists take stock: what has improved, what still needs to be done? 09/07/2024
Illustration: Victoria Villasana Women’s rights | Mexico He said, she Brutal violence against women is not uncommon in Mexico. The writer Gabriela Jauregui has collected quotes from perpetrators in court, creating a harrowing poem By Gabriela Jauregui 09/07/2024
Zehra Khan has founded the Home Based Women Workers Federation in 2009 Photo: Natalia Bronny Trade unions | Pakistan Invisible women workers in Pakistan Women working from home are an important economic factor in Pakistan, but they are often isolated and deprived of their rights. The Home Based Women Workers Federation campaigns for change By Hannah El-Hitami 04/30/2024
Photo: Bas Losekoot Family life | South Korea The silent protest of women in South Korea The East Asian country has a demographic problem: its population is ageing rapidly but many women have no desire to have children By Hawon Jung 04/30/2024
Women’s rights | Mexico A burning issue in Mexico City Mexican perpetrators of acid attacks, in particular against women, are often punished with light sentences or released on bail. A new draft law wants to change all that By Camila Martinez 06/01/2023
A Taliban fighter sits on the shoulders of anonymized women who can’t speak out and whose hands are bound Illustration: Uzra Shamal for KULTURAUSTAUSCH Media | Afghanistan Cartoons vs. the Taliban What does it mean to report on politics in Afghanistan? The Afghan journalist Uzra Shamal talks about her work and why she chose an unusual form of reporting: the cartoon 10/14/2022
Zakira: “Not only my body is locked up at home, but also my mind” Photo: Sayed Aman Sadat Vox pop | Afghanistan “How are you doing?” When the Taliban came to power, women in Afghanistan lost almost everything overnight: their rights, their jobs, their dignity. What are their concerns today? We asked Afghan women for a selfie, and asked the question: how are you doing? 10/01/2022
Women’s rights | Afghanistan Patriarchal darkness Education, work, marriage: over the years, the rights of Afghan women have been fiercely contested. A chronology of an eventful history By Huma Ahmed-Ghosh 10/01/2022
Journalist and women's rights activist Mahbouba Seraj Photo: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Women’s rights | Afghanistan “We’re steering towards catastrophe” Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a “failed state”, says journalist and women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj. And it's the West’s power politics that are partly to blame Interview with Mahbouba Seraj, Natalie Amiri 10/01/2022
The maternity ward at Indira Ghandi Hospital in Kabul Photo: Moises Saman / Magnum Photos / Agentur Focus Health care | Afghanistan On the road in a sick nation Even before the Taliban seized power, health care for Afghan women and girls was sub-standard. Now it is catastrophic: a visit to the provinces By Parand 10/01/2022
Photo Robin Utrecht / picture alliance Black and white thinking “Do you want a bodyguard?” Threatened from all sides, the young author Lale Gül is paying a high price for her self-determination By Lale Gül 04/14/2022
A collage of hand paintings in the “Cave of Hands” in Patagonia, dating back to between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago. Today historians can tell the gender of the people who made them Photo: Hubert Stadler / Corbis / Getty Images Books | Prehistory The hands of women Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory By Christina von Braun 01/07/2022
Photo: Magda Hueckel Literature | Poland “Our trauma has a million faces” The writer Joanna Bator is one of the most important voices of contemporary Polish literature. Her new novel is about angry women and women and deep psychological wounds. Is that coincidence or a statement? Interview with Joanna Bator 07/01/2021
Photo: Jasper James/Gallerystock Fiction | South Korea A South-Korean woman’s life In her novel, author Cho Nam-Joo tells of a South Korean woman who is caught between tradition and hypermodernity By Sabine Scholl 04/01/2021
