Tag: women's rights
Zainab Entezar: “Vulnerability is not the opposite of resistance”
Afghan filmmaker Zainab Entezar discusses Shot the Voice of Freedom, documenting women's resistance to Taliban rule, the ethical challenges of filmmaking, and telling stories from exile. [...]
“I survived things. But I also built things”: Nilofar Ayoubi on Afghan women, exile and resistance
From living publicly as a boy in Kunduz to becoming an entrepreneur, journalist and women’s rights advocate, Nilofar Ayoubi has experienced Afghanistan’s gender restrictions from radically different perspectives. Now in… [...]
Tajik women reveal themselves through the “I am Tajik and…” trend
Faced with archaic social expectations, Tajik women are expressing their exhaustion through a new coded language on social media. Built around the phrase “I am Tajik”, many personal testimonies… [...]
Woman’s Day
International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on 8 March. Originating in the feminist struggles of the early 20th century, this day is intended as a… [...]
Women’s Day in Kazakhstan: hundreds gather for rally in Almaty
On International Women’s Day in Almaty, feminist organisations rallied “for bodily autonomy and against sexual violence”. According to estimates, 700 to 1000 participants joined the rally to express their… [...]