Sexist microaggressions perpetuated among peers also contribute to the prevalence of rape culture in Indian high schools.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's pardon of US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton in the killing of Jennifer Laude, a transPinay, in a hotel room in Olongapo reflects the country's historic subservience to US military interests.
I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.
Despite their disproportionate vulnerability, the Indian government has largely ignored commercially sexually exploited people in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese American filmmaker Cathy Yan recently became the first Asian American woman to direct an American superhero film with the newest installment in the DC Extended Universe, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
The CAA’s language grants a legal path to citizenship for only some "persecuted minorities." Muslims, as well as groups like Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and Buddhist refugees from Tibet, are all left out.
Korean women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
There has never been a female winner of Formula 1 (F1) racing — the most prestigious category in the motorsport. But 13-year-old Juju Noda wants to change that.
Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn return to the DMZ to call on the leaders of the United States and North Korea to return to talks and negotiate a final settlement to the nearly 70-year-old Korean War. Ahn's article argues the importance of including women in the peace negotiations.
In Sri Lanka, as in many other nations, women’s periods are taboo. While families celebrate when a girl bleeds for the first time, as she is seen to have come of age, every month from then on patriarchal values are applied to this natural cycle of life.
As a young girl growing up in McKinney, Texas, I always viewed Hinduism as an open-minded and accepting, kind and forgiving religion. Yet, as I grew older, I noticed these religious values were often lost in the culture surrounding modern Hinduism; instead, this culture often seemed to neglect women.
On April 27, thousands of people gathered in central Jakarta for the 2019 Women's March, parading in solidarity to support women's right in the archipelago and across the globe.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.
Emerging feminist media platforms are helping South Asian people engage in, navigate, and mobilize feminist movements.
Feminists all over the world are fighting to shift these conversations about consent toward a more nuanced understanding of the complex power dynamics that exist in all social relationships. ThaiConsent is one organization doing just that.
The biggest advocates for prohibition were Indian women who pointed to the access of alcohol as the cause of their drunk husbands’ destructive and even violent behavior.
A new report reveals that widespread sexual harassment of Chinese female journalists has been meeting with abysmal responses by media companies and government.
How truly impactful has the #MeToo and other dominant feminist movements been in India, considering that they frequently leave out the most oppressed group in the country: Dalit women.
In late November, officials from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement announced that the Law for Protection from Violence against Women, legislation women’s rights activists have advocated for since 2013, will likely be enacted in 2019.
On Tuesday, in the run-up to the opening of the Indian legislature’s winter session on December 11, women’s groups came together to express frustration and outrage that the Women’s Reservation Bill, which aims to ensure Indian women’s equal representation in elected office, has not yet been passed.
It was only a matter of time before the echoes of Hollywood’s #MeToo and #TimesUp movements reached Bollywood, India’s film industry. That watershed moment finally arrived this September, when Indian actress Tanushree Dutta made accusations of harassment against industry veteran Nana Patekar
Religion is the thread that runs through the heart of India, but these questions have hardly been explored in public. Indian women’s ideas about religion have particularly been ignored by these institutions. So I decided to ask them about it.
For the past few years, Yemen has been experiencing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The country has been wrought with a number of problems, and young Yemenis, especially young women, have been particularly affected by this conflict. Despite this troubling situation, however, a portion of Yemeni youth still dream of a better future. Among those who remain hopeful and productive are artists — a large number of whom are women.
How can we translate Asian women’s leadership in their respective countries to the international stage?
In a primary school classroom, Deepa Das holds back tears as she explains to her 6-year-old daughter why she doesn’t have enough clothes for her. Eight days ago, as heavy monsoon rains lashed the state, Das’ home, which lies in a village behind the school where she is taking shelter, was completely flooded in the space of an hour.