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Pakistani singer Ali Zafar wins #MeToo defamation case: Why it matters
Shafi’s 2018 sexual harassment allegations against Zafar are widely seen as Pakistan’s highest‑profile #MeToo case.
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Calls for justice after Iraqi women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed killed
Amnesty International decries Mohammed’s killing as ‘calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders’ in Iraq.
Iran’s Women’s Asian Cup team have ‘so much concern’ for families back home
Players contesting the Women’s Asian Cup in Australia share fears for loved ones at home amid US-Israeli attacks.
The dark side of Holi
India’s festival of colour has become a day when women brace for harassment.
In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary
The government’s performed outrage over Gates’s Epstein links underlined its indifference to violence against women.
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Virginia’s Law: How Democrat proposal could spark flood of sex abuse claims
US Democrats seek to scrap statute of limitations for sex abuse crimes in bill named after Epstein accuser.
Iran sentences Nobel laureate Mohammadi to seven more years in prison
Women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was arrested in December while attending a memorial ceremony in Mashhad.
Ex-US President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton to testify in Epstein probe
The Clintons agree to testify in congressional probe of high-society sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid contempt threat.
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Senegal’s ‘School of Husbands’ teaches men about gender equality
Senegalese men ask all the questions they don’t dare bring up in public at a so-called ‘School of Husbands’.
Published On 8 Jan 2026
What being a woman in Gaza means in this genocidal war
Mothers starving to feed children, surgeries without anaesthesia and loss of privacy define female experience in Gaza.
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The Me Too movement in the age of Trump and Epstein
Tarana Burke tells Marc Lamont Hill on Epstein, Trump and how widespread sexual violence is in the United States.
Published On 20 Dec 2025
