Shackled to the societal chains, an eight-year-old girl was robbed off the innocence of her childhood. A girl, who was just gaining perspective of the world was made to wear the marriage band at a ...

No matter how privileged, a girl was willy-nilly a captive of orthodoxy. All girls – in Rukhmabai’s distressing description – were born to be “enslaved daughters.” How did that happen? Grappling with ...

Sixteen-year-old Shivani, an aspiring police officer and a Class 11 student, was felicitated on International Women’s Day for her courage in standing up against child marriage—not just for herself but ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Ethiopian woman whose terrifying ordeal of kidnap and rape at the hands of her would-be husband inspired Angelina Jolie's new film Difret says she hopes her ...

Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women Whether self-portraits saturated in ...