On this day

On this day in 1893 women voted in a national election for the first time

On this day in 1956, thousands of South African women protested against the Apartheid pass laws

On this day in 1984, Nawal El Moutawakel became the first Moroccan to win an Olympic gold medal

On this day in 1888, Bertha Benz became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance

On this day in 1529 Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated and signed the Treaty of Cambrai

Climate Emergency

Insights

2

Fixing Macedonian media coverage of gender-based violence

3

“This is how change happens” – Activists use social media for reproductive justice in Morocco

Change-makers

2

“Our rights have been exploited for 40 years” – activist Pashtana Dorani on Afghanistan, the Taliban and US intervention

3

“There is no net zero plan”: Caroline Dennett on quitting Shell over climate double talk

Flashbacks

2

Yu Gwan-sun, icon of Korea’s fight for independence

3

The Women Behind The Remembrance Poppy

Op-eds

consent, disabled women, blind women

How #MeToo gave me a vocabulary to claim disability rights

climate emergency

Climate emergency: The time is now

tunisian constitution

Tunisia’s new constitution is a slide to an autocratic regime

police brutality

How UK police are failing to protect women

The Debrief