Microfinance loans were meant to offer a pathway out of poverty in countries like Nigeria, particularly for women. But as climate change makes weather patterns more unpredictable, the risk of falling into further debt falls onto the shoulders of women farmers who face not just erratic farming conditions but social stigma from default.
“The people who face the most barriers are often those who need our care the most – and yet their voices are not the ones we hear in maternity care.”
For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure and demolishing homes. But women are pushing back against eviction and uniting against oppression from outside their community and within.
Up against a platform and police who seem to view abuse as inevitable, OnlyFans creators are fighting back against online harassers who gamify stealing and distributing their copyrighted material.
Behind the scenes of “I wouldn’t take no for an answer”, the story of a woman fighting for women escaping abuse in rural India.
Our editor Ankita Anand goes behind the scenes of our latest story, “When Help Hurts,” which asks whether people with disabilities have an equal right to consent.
Once dehumanized in local media, the LGBTQI+ community in Zimbabwe are now showing how human they are – through social media.
What it takes to change attitudes and secure women’s rights to inherit property.
How a solidarity-based sisterhood movement spread across rural India.
Is your desire to help more important than my consent? How #MeToo gave me a vocabulary to claim disability rights.
