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Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

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Kenya's Unique Approach To Rape Prevention Should Have The Rest Of The World Taking Note.

In 2010, the group No Means No Worldwide began offering self-defense classes to Nairobi schoolgirls, teaching them how to fight back against rape.

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Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are true inspirations for standing up for children's rights

Following the announcement that Pakistani schoolgirl and education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai and Indian children?? rights activist Kailash Satyarthi have been awar...

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Two Champions of Children Are Given Nobel Peace Prize

??ho is Malala???shouted the Taliban gunman who leapt onto a crowded bus in north western Pakistan two years ago, then fired a bullet into the head of Malala Yousafzai, a 1...

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New Toilets a Small Step for Women in this Uttar Pradesh Village

Decorated with marigolds and ribbons, 108 toilets unveiled in a tragedy-hit village are a small step in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to end open-air defecation...

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A Benefit Concert For Our Girls Of Nigeria Hosted By Tyrese Gibson And Friends

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria last month by Boko Haram, an act that drew international condemnation. With the well being of the girls in mind...

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Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai announces first donation

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl brought to the UK after being shot in the head by the Taliban, has announced the first donation from her new education charity wi...

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BCC aims to better position, represent women in programming

She is one of the BBC’s most senior female executives, and although this in itself wouldn’t necessarily mean that Liliane Landor is particularly concerned about...

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