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6 Mar 2026

Women use collage art in a Lima prison

In 2024–2025 a collage workshop ran in a women's prison in Lima. Women used images to tell stories and keep bonds, while in 2025 Peru moved toward tougher prison controls and more visible surveillance.

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Photo by steven maarten william V, Unsplash

8 Dec 2025

Elizabeth: a Myanmar doctor in exile, music and feminism

After the 2021 military coup, Exile Hub and others supported people forced into exile. Elizabeth, a doctor who fled to Mae Sot in 2022, now uses music and a feminist residency to support women from Myanmar.

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28 Nov 2025

WISE: Nigerian women shaping climate justice

The 2025 UN climate talks (COP30) ended in Brazil. WISE, a Nigerian women’s hub founded by Olanike Olugboji-Daramola, was not at COP30 but continues grassroots work, rallies and events on floods, farming and policy.

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24 Nov 2025

Women, Forests and COP30: RADD's Forest Immersion in Cameroon

During COP30 in Belém (10–21 November 2025) RADD held a forest immersion on 17 November 2025 in Cameroon. The event connected women, local forest knowledge and global climate debates and included training, planting and exchanges.

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16 Nov 2025

Talia Levitt: art and early motherhood

New York artist Talia Levitt presented "24/7," a show about early motherhood that mixes domestic objects with art techniques. She uses scored grids, piped paint and sequins; the exhibition will travel to K11 Art Foundation in Shanghai.

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15 Nov 2025

Digital harassment of women journalists in Indonesia

Online attacks against female journalists and activists in Indonesia have become more visible in the last five years. Victims report doxing, edited photos, DDoS and other abuse, while legal protection and platform responses remain limited.

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3 Nov 2025

Women Forest Guards at Kaziranga

More than 5,000 women serve as frontline forest personnel in India, and many now work as guards at Kaziranga National Park in Assam. They patrol, help communities and rescue animals during floods, after training at a police battalion.

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18 Oct 2025

Farzana Sithi and the struggle for women’s rights after the 2024 uprising

Farzana Sithi, a student activist from Jessore, became prominent during the July–August 2024 youth uprising. She says little progress followed, reports rising violence and discrimination since August 5, 2024, and criticises the interim government.

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31 Jul 2025

Budhani: a Tharu fable refabulated

"Budhani" is a novella retold from an Indigenous Tharu folktale. It follows a crow reborn as a girl, and it mixes a fight for rights with scenes of love and family conversation.

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12 Jul 2024

Olfat Berro: improving health access in the Middle East

Olfat Berro grew up in Lebanon and chose a career to improve health services and medicine access in the region. She rose at Roche, launched training programmes and led large public health collaborations in Egypt and elsewhere.

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29 Dec 2023

Kalpana’s move to Kathmandu

A young woman named Kalpana moved from a rural town to Kathmandu and began work in a beauty parlour. The shop later added massage services, and Kalpana now faces hard choices about money, safety and her marriage.

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