International report - No sign of decline in the number of acid attacks...
India tragically tops the global charts when it comes to acid attacks targeting women. Despite stricter laws and harsher punishments, the number of such attacks continues to increase on the...
View ArticleInternational report - India ponders changing minimum marriage age to help...
India plans to push up the legal marriage age of women from 18 years at present to 21, the same as for men, in the hope the measure will steer more women into the nation’s labour force and slow down...
View ArticleInternational report - African influence at stake in diplomatic row between...
The war of words between France and Turkey over cartoons portraying Islam's Prophet Muhammad is the latest ugly spat between the two Nato members. But underlying the simmering diplomatic tensions is...
View ArticleInternational report - Giving a voice to Tunisia's black women, victims of...
The Voices of Tunisian Black Women, launched early this year, is a group offering a safe space for self-expression so that black women can speak out about the racial discrimination and abuse they face...
View ArticleInternational report - Rich millennials in Canada plead with the government...
A group of 200 rich Canadians, members of a group called Resource Movement, are in favour of higher wealth taxes to help reduce inequalities between the most fortunate and the rest of the population....
View ArticleInternational report - Will Erdogan's Turkey turn into Biden's foreign policy...
Turkey is set to be one of the thorniest issues facing US president-elect Joseph Biden. Biden has pledged to restore international alliances and traditional ties with America's friends in Europe. But...
View ArticleInternational report - Terrible beauty: the Turkish prison artwork of Zehra...
Zehra Dogan, a 31-year-old Kurdish artist who spent almost two years in jail in Turkey, is earning growing international plaudits for her work. A recent exhibition in Istanbul of the work she produced...
View ArticleInternational report - Can Turkish exports survive Erdogan's aggressive...
Turkish exporters say they have become collateral victims of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's aggressive foreign policy. Ankara's push to exert its influence in the Middle East and Africa has provoked...
View ArticleInternational report - India adds teeth to world’s fastest cruise missile as...
India has kicked off a flurry of tests of a supersonic cruise missile against a background of border tensions with China. The military is hard at work to add speed, range and accuracy to the country’s...
View ArticleInternational report - Robin Hood Army: waging war on hunger with food...
The Robin Hood Army is a group of volunteers who collect excess food from restaurants and hotels and distribute it to those in need in India and 14 other countries. Every week volunteers meet in 159...
View ArticleInternational report - Turkish women journalists fighting the discourse of...
Working under the slogan "With a women's pen in the pursuit of truth," JinNews is a groundbreaking women's news agency in Turkey. But Jin's future is increasingly in doubt, the agency becoming a...
View ArticleInternational report - The hand-to-hand struggle to fight Covid in Brazil's...
A coronavirus variant from Manaus in northern Brazil, first detected in Japan earlier in January, is now the dominant form of the virus in the hard-hit South American city. As grave diggers struggle...
View ArticleInternational report - In times of agrarian distress, a new lease of life for...
Thanks to imaginative cultivation methods, farmers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have turned the corner after facing water scarcity and severe drought over the years. Latur, one of the...
View ArticleInternational report - Can Northern Ireland survive the vaccine war in the...
Maintaining an invisible border is crucial to the Northern Ireland peace process. The biggest conundrum in the Brexit negotiations was how to keep people and trade flowing across that virtual barrier...
View ArticleInternational report - Violence and disappointment as Tunisia marks tenth...
Since the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring, Tunisia has witnessed a wave of unrest in different parts of the country. Groups of youngsters across disadvantaged urban areas took to the streets...
View ArticleInternational report - Dark spell lingers as India honours women waging war...
Two Indian women recently received one of the country’s highest civilian awards for their efforts to rescue women branded as witches. However, recent ritual killings eclipsed the Independence Day...
View ArticleInternational report - Will Turkey sacrifice Uighur refugees to greed for...
The fate of tens of thousands of Uighur refugees in Turkey is threatening to become an embarrassing political controversy for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With the Turkish Parliament...
View ArticleInternational report - Despite Brexit, Scotland insists on the right to...
Brexit is now a reality: since the start of this year, the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union. In Scotland, which voted against leaving the EU in 2016, there are intense debates...
View ArticleInternational report - Ten years after the Arab Spring revolution, what have...
A decade ago, Egyptians followed their neighbours in Tunisia, Syria and Bahrain onto the streets to call for social, political and economic reforms. In Egypt, protestors asked for bread, increased...
View ArticleInternational report - Erdogan's electoral nemesis aims to strike again for...
Canan Kaftancioglu, the mastermind behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest electoral defeat now has her sights set on ousting Erdogan himself. Provided she can stay out of jail....
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