Two high-profile murders were among at least 21 femicides across Kenya in January, but amid the nation’s shock and outrage, media, members of the public, and even parliamentarians (including women) excused the murders by maligning the women as “slay queens” putting themselves in harm’s way for social media clout.

India's judiciary may finally be experiencing a long-overdue reckoning on the hostile environment for women civil servants, one marked by systemic harassment, intimidation, institutional abandonment, and arbitrary dismissal.

While women’s inheritance and property ownership are protected by the Lebanese Constitution, inheritance laws differ based on religion and sect, leaving disputes to religious courts and personal interpretations — and biases — of those laws

Since the collapse of the Lebanese Pound in 2019, social workers in Beirut say that migrants and Lebanese alike have turned to the sex trade to cope with the increased costs of living.