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Solving Bangladesh’s ‘Living Wages’ Problem Demands Global Support
Garment workers in the developing world are mostly women, who barely make decent wages. Campaigns to increase their pay globally face huge complexities. Here, Bangladeshi workers.The dialogue on living...
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Girls’ Education Progresses in Afghanistan, but Will It Last?
The Abbazan girls' school, above, is part of a network of 91 schools built or refurbished by the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team, led by Western forces in Afghanistan. From 2007 to 2013, the...
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A Nepali Gay Rights Activist Achieves the Impossible
Sunil Babu Pant, standing, participating in a gai jatra festival of cows in 2011, in Chitwan, Nepal.The name Sunil Babu Pant is synonymous with gay rights in Nepal. Over the last two decades, Pant has...
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Meet Sapana Malla, a Diligent Pioneer of Women’s Rights in Nepal
Sapana Pradhan Malla, a renown women’s rights activist in Nepal and a new member of the United Nations Committee Against Torture.As a lawyer, Sapana Pradhan Malla has pioneered women’s rights in Nepal,...
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Women’s Feature Service: Mapping the Struggles of Feminism in India
Pamela Phillipose, who edited the Women’s Feature Service in New Delhi for almost six years. She stepped down in 2014.Pamela Phillipose was editor of the Women’s Feature Service, the only syndicated...
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The Lure of Violent Extremism for Women: A Terrorism Specialist Explains
Liat Shetret, a security analyst, directs the New York office of the Global Center on Cooperative Security. She says that women and men can be drawn into terrorism through “sexy,” persuasive...
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