“People in Afghanistan don't see widows as human beings who have rights anymore”

Barbie. The feminist's nemesis, long-accused of playing a role in—or at least failing to combat—the hyper-sexualisation and prevalence of body image issues among young girls; a toy that...

It's the year 2000 and I'm sitting at a wooden lab desk in my Year 6 primary school science class, sun shining through the big glass windows, learning about the birds and the bees and all that...

Parties that have moved to the left economically but to the right socially have been the big winners

There has been a lot of talk about the low voter turnout at last week's EU and local elections. With a showing of 36 per cent, according to EU figures—significantly lower than the European average...

Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against the seven-year jail term given to an opposition politician—Ilgar Mammadov—in Azerbaijan, ostensibly on public disorder charges,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, has dinner with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem Since the Israel-Palestine peace talks finally collapsed, the two sides have been...

Right, a Mao-era propaganda poster showing women working; left, a contemporary Chinese cartoon mocks a female university graduate who can't find a husband because her standards are too...

Pakistani journalist and activist Humaira Shahid in London © Jessica Abrahams It's impossible not to be impressed by Humaira Awais Shahid. Raised in Kuwait but a long-time resident of Lahore,...

Do all priests believe in God?