Current Affairs

Whether it’s new legislation or the accomplishments of female world leaders, we investigate the light and the dark in hard news. We break down what policy changes mean for our readers, while exploring how the world can be a better place.

December 20, 2022

From Outrage to Opportunity: The Missing Perspectives of Women in News

Phoebe Saintilan

December 15, 2022

The morning after: The struggle to find emergency contraceptive pills in India

Supported by MECCA M-POWER.

Mahima Jain

December 15, 2022

Unseen and unheard: Silent demons haunt survivors of nodding syndrome in northern Uganda

This story was produced with support from the International Women's Media Fund Gender Justice Reporting Initiative. TW: Sexual violence.

Watsemba Miriam

December 15, 2022

My childhood ended. It remained there, in Kremenchuk.

Missing Perspectives

December 15, 2022

Bend it like Hadiya: The young woman taking on freestyle football

Najiya Ovungal

December 15, 2022

"My heart was thumping, praying I didn’t hear any loud bangs": Pixie Shmigel on fleeing Ukraine

Pixie Shmigel

November 10, 2022

Changing South Kivu one dance at a time: The young Congolese woman defying stereotypes

Supported by MECCA M-POWER.

Douce Namwezi

November 7, 2022

33 days of hell: I survived the Russian occupation of Bucha

TW: Sexual violence

Anna-Maria Mykytyuk

November 1, 2022

It all starts with words: How Ye’s comments are fuelling age old antisemitism and the rise of hatred

Julia Sussman

October 22, 2022

Mandana Hendessi on the criminalisation of Afghan women's sexuality

Mandana Hendessi

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