Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.

A book about farmer suicides and women farmers in rural distress was the highlight at the ongoing World Book Fair in the ...

January 31, 2025 • Rebel forces continue to claim more Congolese territory coveted for its rich mineral resources. In Myanmar, former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women ...

It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a ...

Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It's practised in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts ...

Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) plans to create regulations to handle femicide cases ...

From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set on fire by her estranged boyfriend, a surge in violence against women in Kenya has ...

"There was sexual violence, there was torture, there was cruelty, which are very explicit signs of hatred, misogyny, and ...