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Women in technology
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Will they kill us too?' Murder of leading feminist has chilling effect on Iraq's activists

Yanar Mohammed, a prominent women's rights activist in Iraq, was murdered, highlighting the dangers faced by female advocates in the country.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Jose Maria Balcazar elected Peru's new interim president

Jose Maria Balcazar, a leftist lawmaker who defended child marriage, was elected interim president amid political instability and controversy.
Women
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Women behind the lens: I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home'

Child marriage remains widespread in Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh, forcing very young girls into household roles with limited agency despite its illegality.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter

Taliban bans on contraception, female education and work, plus rising child marriage for dowries, create a catastrophic healthcare and human-rights crisis for Afghan women.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Child bride spared execution in Iran after blood money is paid

A child bride in Iran avoided execution after her husband's family accepted blood money, underscoring qisas law issues and systemic gender bias against abused women.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays 80,000 in blood money'

A Baluch child bride in Iran faces execution unless she raises 10bn tomans to pay the victim's family, reflecting discriminatory laws and vulnerability to abuse.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate

I was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was already drawn to reading about rights and freedoms. My suffering came from knowing that my rights were being violated, along with my adolescence and childhood. But soon I had to accept the situation
Women
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 months ago

Pakistan sends important signal' of hope in a gloomy world of pushbacks on women's rights

Child marriage has been banned in Pakistan's capital, sending a significant message about protecting women's rights.
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