Aurat March: Envisioning Justice

Pakistan Aditi Mishra Pakistani women are ready for the third Aurat March today to mark the international women’s day. Aurat March is a protest organized by several women organizations under the banner ‘Hum Auratein’ (We, the women). It is an intersectional event observed on international women’s day, started in 2018. The protest is well organized

Junkiri: A Feminist Library

Nepal  Nagma Mali On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2020, Nepali readers get a gift; Junkiri: A feminist Library.  On Thursday, four days before the Women’s Day, some feminist activists inaugurated the library in Kathmandu. Junkiri is a feminist library initiated by Voices of Women Media. It will be the first of its kind

Rapid Progress in Women Empowerment

Bangladesh Farhat Jahan Bangladesh has topped among the South Asian countries in gender equality, ranking 50th out of 153 nations countries, according to the Global Gender Gap Index Report 2020,  World Economic Forum (WEF). Bangladesh is gradually progressing in the gender gap from 2008 when it attained 91st rank ‘s among 115 nations.  This change in

Women of Changing Bhutan

Bhutan Anisha Ghalley Bhutan had been reluctant to allow modernization in the country. The peaceful Himalayan kingdom did not want to disturb social uniqueness and ecology. Young generation with the influence of information revolution was not comfortable to remain in isolation. Now, it has accepted limited features of the modernization, which do not affects it’s

Shaheen Bagh: Women’s Satyagraha

India Subhash Bishnoi It has been almost three months since a huge crowd of women is continuously protesting against the government for their right of citizenship. The protest which started on 14 December 2019 with 14 local women, has now gained global attention. No one could have imagined the protest led by a small group

Jayathma: Icon of ‘Hashtag Generation’

Sri Lanka Sanduni Atapattu Jayathma Wickramanayake was appointed as the Envoy on Youth to the Secretary General of United Nations in the year 2017. She has led the youth sector of Sri Lanka through a movement for civic and political engagement of young people named ‘Hashtag Generation’. Ms. Wickramanayake initiated the ‘Hashtag Generation’ as a

6 Women: Leading for the Change

Afghanistan Fatema Ghafori More than 18 years after the Taliban’s overthrow, Afghanistan is still one of the least peaceful countries in the world. But, with the support of the government and the international community, significant progress has been made in improving the social and economic status of Afghan women since 2001. In Afghanistan, many important