Women’s Day Special: Women and the Iranian Revolution: A Historical Perspective
Women’s movement in Iran cannot be understood without tying it to people’s nationalist, democratic, and anti-imperialist struggles
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Aditi Bhaduri
Work-related gender gaps persist but solutions are clear – new ILO report
International Women’s Day
Work-related gender gaps have not seen any meaningful improvement for 20 years, but a new ILO report says that the path to progress is clear.
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Who owns the fight for LGBT+ rights in the Arab world?
Luxembourg’s prime minister’s called out homophobia in the Arab world at the Arab League-EU summit
LGBT+ relationships are illegal across most of the Middle East and North Africa
After Netanyahu’s Moscow visit Iran insists Moscow ties ‘strong’
On a visit to Moscow last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had met with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Photo: Courtesy Embassy of Israel in Russia
Alarming global surge of measles cases a growing threat to children–UNICEF
Ten countries accounted for approximately three-quarters of the total increase in measles in 2018,including significant outbreaks inBrazil, Madagascar, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Yemen
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BRICS to have single integrated payment system
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are working out a single payment
Why is Afghanistan batting for India in this round of India-Pakistan hostilities?
So deep is the mistrust against Pakistan amongst Afghans that some even doubt the authenticity of supports of restraint.
Photo: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP
Afghan Women Raise Their Voice: Include us in peace negotiations
Women are more than half of Afghanistan’s population. Memory of atrocities during the Afghan civil war and under Taliban rule are engraved in their minds. Afghan women need assurances that their rights and liberties will be protected under any new deal
Photo:Afghan Women’s Network
Deconstructing China’s ‘technical hold’ on listing Azhar Masood as global terrorist
The tacit arrangement seems to be that as long as Pakistan based terrorist outfits do not support separatists in China’s Muslim-majority restive Xinjiang and do not disrupt its projects under its flagship CPEC, Beijing would continue to protect them from being censored by the international community.
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