Nigeria’s women drivers rally together to navigate male-dominated industry

[ad_1] Lagos, Nigeria – It was after 11pm on a night last February when Victoria Oyeyemi received an urgent phone call as she was getting ready for bed. A fellow taxi driver, Gladys April Abanang, had been in a serious...

Members of London’s Garrick Club agree to let women join for first time

[ad_1] Vote followed outrage over membership list that revealed the club was a bastion of Britain’s establishment.The members of the men-only Garrick Club in central London have voted to allow women to join for the first time. The 193-year-old club’s...

Why has Australia declared a ‘national crisis’ over violence against women?

[ad_1] Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has branded domestic violence a “national crisis” amid an outcry over the rise in the number of killings of women by their intimate partners, and pledged action to tackle the issue, including new funding...

Manhattan prosecutors announce retrial for film producer Harvey Weinstein

[ad_1] The announcement follows a decision last week to toss Weinstein’s New York conviction on charges of rape and sexual assault.The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has revealed plans to retry United States film producer Harvey Weinstein on charges related to...

‘Profoundly unjust’: Reactions to court overturning Weinstein’s conviction

[ad_1] A New York appeals court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for rape, saying the trial judge should not have allowed other women to testify about alleged assaults that the movie mogul had not been charged with in that...

Top New York court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction

[ad_1] Defence and prosecution prepare for retrial of the once-powerful movie producer in a case that was a landmark for the #MeToo movement.New York’s highest court has overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for rape and sexual assault,...

Polish lawmakers debate reforming strict abortion laws

[ad_1] Poland has some of the strictest abortion laws in the European Union.Lawmakers in Poland have begun debating changes to the country’s harsh abortion laws that had grown more restrictive during eight years of conservative nationalist governments. Liberalising access to...

Arizona’s top court allows near-total 1864 abortion ban to go into effect

[ad_1] In 1864, the territory of Arizona in the United States passed a law that criminalised nearly all abortions. Arizona was not even a state at the time of the law’s passage. But now, 160 years later, its state Supreme...

Trump says abortion should be up to US states, avoids backing national ban

[ad_1] Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said the issue of abortion access should be left up to states to decide, eschewing calls from within his party to support a nationwide ban on the procedure in the United States....

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Literary giant, revolutionary hero, domestic abuser

[ad_1] On March 12, Mukoma wa Ngugi, the Kenyan American poet and author, who is the son of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the famed writer widely seen as a giant of African literature, took to X, formerly Twitter, to allege that...
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