When she was 6-years-old Gabriella Gillespie’s father murdered her mother. At 13, he took her and her sisters to his native country, Yemen, where he sold them as child brides. Despairing the prospects of marrying the man in his 60s...
Welcome to the Trokosi’s clandestine playground. There are no games to be played and the waif girls who roam here, sometimes daydream about suicide. For centuries, girls as young as two-years-old, have been offered to shrines across Ghana as slaves...
Holi, the Hindu festival of colours steeped in ancient legend, celebrates the coming spring as winter ebbs. On March 20, while the local Hindus in Sindh’s Ghotki province of Pakistan delighted in the religious revelries, two sisters were allegedly abducted...
“Women should be treated as a full citizen,” Saudi Arabian activist, Aziza Al-Yousef told the Guardian back in 2016. She had spearheaded a campaign which saw thousands sign a petition to eradicate the country’s dictatorial guardianship system – one that...
Their story is an unyielding dichotomy between liberation and repression. Images of their faces trickled – almost too slowly – to a waiting world and an eager press. They are the 11 female activists from Saudi Arabia who, in June...
With dark eyes that stared defiantly into a world – one in which the trademark pearl necklace of the devadasi that clung around her neck inscribed destiny, Sitavva Dundappa Jodatti would defy its age-old custom. A steadfast figure, she would...
Cultural relativism has a boundary, and any practice that inflicts cruelty on a child crosses that line. In a landmark ruling, the UK has seen its first conviction for the crime of female genital mutilation (FGM). In February of this...
(Cairo) Egypt had little cause for celebration, as it marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation this year. A huge number of girls in the populous Arab state continue to go under the knife, even as...
We are used to thinking about boxing or martial arts as men’s sports. Just think about Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Rocky Marciano, Mike Tyson, and the first thing that comes to your mind will be an image of power and...
There is a new form of modern slavery, and in the Middle East it is legalized. It’s called kafala. A form of abuse against women workers, especially domestic workers, in which the state is complicit. In Lebanon this issue concerns...
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