Sexist microaggressions perpetuated among peers also contribute to the prevalence of rape culture in Indian high schools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?