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It’s been a long fight but the battle against sexual violence in Indonesia’s universities is slowly being won.

Violence against women in South Asia remains high, but women are slowly gaining wins through online activism.

The death of Mahsa Amini unleashed outrage at the government’s treatment of women that had long been simmering beneath the surface.

For a protest movement to succeed, it must fit within the cultural landscape of its environment.

Arab women have been suffering from layers of marginalisation and invisibility over the years, but a nation is leading the way to change that.

#MeToo may not have garnered much traction in Singapore but that didn’t stop women from demanding change.

The internet allows women to find solidarity, but it doesn’t allow everyone to have an equal voice.

The web provides safe harbour to anti-feminist views which can have real-world repercussions.

If India is to seize the advantage of its burgeoning young workforce, it needs to strategically implement economic and industrial policies.

Research shows that starting kangaroo mother care immediately after birth saves many more lives, reduces infections and hypothermia, and improves feeding.

Nearly 90 per cent of cervical cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries due to inadequate access to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and care.

Entrepreneurship is an engine of economic growth but it can only move into top gear when there are more women.

The technology can help circumvent traditional barriers to women’s empowerment.

Understanding why some poverty reduction programmes work and others don’t call for a better understanding of the people involved.

Nearly 40 million women have left the workforce in India since the turn of the millennium despite an economic boom. Now, there’s a window to reverse the trend.

Tourist villages provide opportunities for women to earn money for their family and the local community without leaving their home.

Microfinance doesn’t always empower the women reliant on it, but a different form of accounting could help level the playing field.

Traditional weaving can be an escape from extreme poverty in rural Indonesia, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

A formal identity and a mobile phone are two key weapons in the global fight against poverty.

Psychedelics could potentially improve mother-infant bonding during postpartum depression. But studies have not looked into it.

Many South Asian countries have made progress in adopting right to information laws. But ensuring everyone benefits is proving more of a challenge.

From labour exploitation to torturous conditions in confinement, the rights of foreign workers facing the death penalty in Bahrain are often neglected.

Laws on genital mutilation, gender affirmation and cosmetic genital surgery are at odds, even though they have many similarities.

Doctors compensated on a fee-for-service basis in India, were more likely to perform hysterectomy surgeries, whether or not they were clinically necessary.

While hysterectomy surgery has seen a drop in developed economies, it persists in the global South reflecting a racist, sexist, and prejudicial legacy.

Surgery on intersex infants attempts to shape them to society’s expectations. It is society, not the child, that needs changing.

The Australia-India Bilateral Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership aims to help accelerate businesses scale to global markets and increase participation of women entrepreneurs in the areas of cyber and critical technologies.

Since adults learn differently to children, tapping into familiar mediums could help boost literacy.

Literacy is not only about rankings. In Indonesia, misconceptions about literacy create a wider gap.

For years, literacy has not been the centre of education in Indonesia. This could change after a long-awaited new curriculum was introduced during the pandemic.

Despite government-mandated education, too many Indians remain unable to read and write. It’s time to revisit the policies.

Significant growth in girls’ rugby around the world over the past decade comes with increased focus on the importance of injury prevention.

US$5.4 billion earning potential from education will be lost to Afghanistan should the country fail to allow girls to complete their secondary education, according to a new analysis by Unicef.

Converting classrooms into an all English-speaking environment takes away children’s opportunities to develop crucial skills in their home languages.

Globally, only about half of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment.

Unicef and WHO call on governments to allocate increased resources to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding policies and programmes.

The Canadian health care system has a long and complicated relationship with people of colour. Acknowledging the need for change is the first step to change.

Beliefs about a woman’s ‘proper’ place in society are behind the some perplexing contradictions in attitudes to abortion.

The most comprehensive global analysis of gender pay inequalities in the health and care sector finds that women face a larger gender pay gap than other economic sectors.

New Zealand’s pro-choice laws do not equate to indifference to foetal life.

If approved, Opill would be the first daily birth control pill available OTC without a prescription in the US.

If religious freedom is a true American right, then it must apply to all, not just the conservative Christians arguing against the right to abortion.

More women in leadership roles, solid social protection systems, strong democracies, and thriving feminist civil society groups are contributing factors to effective crisis response, according to a new report by UN Women and UNDP.

Women’s rights are more than a moral crusade, the lives of thousands of women and children hang on a woman’s ability to make her own choices.

Almost one-third of women in developing countries had their first child during adolescence, according to a new UNFPA report.

The research tracked more than 1,500 women in Melbourne, with a third reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) in the first decade of motherhood and one in five in the past year.

Researchers focused on how maternal mortality is impacted by abortion in the study because data shows staying pregnant carries a higher risk of death than having an abortion.

Many of the health factors affecting women can be adjusted if women are made aware of them.

For decades, mental health has been one of the most overlooked areas of public health, receiving a tiny part of the attention and resources it needs and deserves, says WHO.

The study from the University of Queensland found that female leadership, education, religious diversity, and public trust in government were found to reduce rates of infection and death.

Researchers found evidence that gender-based violence appears to be exacerbated by extreme weather and climate events, driven by factors such as economic shock, social instability, enabling environments, and stress.

The desire to have a son may shorten breastfeeding duration so women can try to conceive again in the hopes of having a boy, but shorter breastfeeding time is linked to greater risk of death for Nepali infants.

EU lawmakers agreed that listed companies should aim to have at least 40 per cent of their non-executive director positions held by members of the under-represented sex by 2026.

Hundreds of thousands of women with gynaecological conditions across the UK are being forced to tolerate extreme pain and debilitating symptoms because of unacceptable waiting lists for diagnosis and treatment.

Real-world concerns about women’s safety and wellbeing are mirrored in the online world, according to figures from Ofcom’s major study into the UK’s online lives.

The court said that sex workers have the right to live with dignity, notwithstanding their profession, and that authorities have a duty to protect them.

Tongan families are being pushed to extremes as affordable housing grows scarce. New Zealand needs a Pacific Housing Strategy to address this escalating crisis.

Even during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, more women died from dementia (46,000) than from Covid-19 (33,000).

Women who suffer disabling periods can take three days off, with a possible extension of two extra days if the pain is severe.

The percentage of women who have experienced non-inclusive behaviours has increased from 52 per cent in 2021 to 59 per cent in 2022, half of women surveyed say they have experienced microaggressions, while 14 per cent have experienced harassment, according to a report by Deloitte.

The World Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s “Every Woman” study shows over two-thirds of women participants said they knew very little or nothing about ovarian cancer prior to their diagnosis.

The draft opinion written by Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito maintains that Roe v. Wade must be overruled because the right to abortion is not mentioned in the US constitution.

In 2021, the Internet Watch Foundation removed over 250,000 web pages containing child sexual abuse imagery, 97 per cent featuring girls.

WHO’s SAGE recommends updating HPV vaccine dose schedules to one or two doses for girls and young women aged 9-20; and two doses with a 6-month interval for women aged above 21.

The White Paper on Singapore Women’s Development outlines 25 plans to address 5 areas: workplace opportunities, caregivers, violence, other support measures for women, and mindset shifts.

An estimated 10,000 Irish women and girls were sent to work without pay and subjected to abuse at the Magdalene Laundries.

The new WHO guideline, for the first time, includes recommendations for telemedicine that helped support access to abortion and family planning services during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Psychological abuse is often ignored and assumed to be less severe than other forms of intimate partner violence.

The assumption that the tuna fishing industry is a man’s world is not only misleading, but also damaging.

Without accurate and timely gender data, resources may be wasted in programmes that do not work.

Missing gender data means Indonesia’s development programmes are poorly targeted, hindering gender mainstreaming goals enacted 22 years ago.

We still don’t know just how widespread and systematic the use of sexual violence is in conflict zones.

Women feel most of the online vitriol they received was gendered, with perpetrators focusing on their gender, their physical appearances and their role as working mothers.

A new report by WHO and UNICEF details exploitative practices employed by the $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition and violating international commitments.

This is the first time the FDA has approved the marketing of a condom specifically indicated for anal sex.

Women must take heed of symptoms such as bloating and abdominal pain.

The court made the decision in response to a legal suit filed by a coalition of abortion rights advocates.

mRNA vaccines are 61% effective at preventing Covid-19 hospitalisation in babies less than six months old whose mothers were vaccinated during pregnancy.

A new training guide by the World Health Organization educates health care workers on how to resist requests to carry out medicalised female genital mutilation.

According to new research by the University of Oxford and the World Health Organization, sexual health programmes that incorporate pleasure significantly improve condom use.

The bill, which does not make exceptions for rape or incest, will now move to the State Senate.

Vaccinated women in the US study, most of whom received Pfizer or Moderna, had an increase in menstrual cycle length of just under one day, but experienced no change in the number of menses days.

Women face a greater risk of death, hospital readmission, or complications when their operation is performed by a man than when they are treated by a female surgeon, according to a Canada study.