Women's Rights

12 Jun 2013

A gender rights activist was released from detention in Guangxi yesterday morning only to be met by a protesting crowd and an eviction order. Ye Haiyan, the 38-year-old chairwoman of the China...

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Hong Kong must unleash women's potential to drive progress

5 Jun 2013

The Hong Kong government attaches great importance to promoting the well-being of women. The Women's Commission plays a high-level strategic role in advising the government on policies,...

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Women's control of their own wombs the first step to health

29 May 2013

In development, there are lots of statistics. Every once in a while, a number jumps out at you because it expresses a complicated truth in simple terms. Here's one that jumped out at me: 20 per...

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Saudi woman reaches Mount Everest summit in historic climb

19 May 2013

It is a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, her proud father said.

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Afghan policewomen suffer sexual abuse at work

25 Apr 2013

Afghanistan’s policewomen suffer sexual assault by male colleagues, often inside police stations, a rights group said on Thursday, calling for women-only toilets and changing facilities to curb...

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Women tourists desert India after sex attacks

1 Apr 2013

The number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 per cent in the past three months following a spate of sex attacks that have made global headlines, a new survey has found.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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China's empowered women deliver a slap in the face to gender equality

I'm dedicating this April Fool's Day column to women like Yu Ruiyu, a deputy to the National People's Congress, and Wang Wenya, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference....

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Shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala to pen life story

Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is to tell her life story in a book due out later this year, the publishers said on Thursday, in a deal...

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Holding back women only hobbles progress

During my first week as the US secretary of state, I had the honour of meeting a group of courageous women from Burma. Two were former political prisoners, and although they had all endured...

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Do clothes make the woman? Only if we let them

Whether it is India, Hong Kong, Australia or the US, the question of how women should dress or what clothes are "provocative" has been raised in cases of rape or molestation.

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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

Malala Yousafzai leaves hospital after successful surgery

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the central English city of Birmingham said the 15 year old has been making "a good recovery" following surgery last weekend to fix a titanium plate to cover a...

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INDIA

Kashmir's first all-girl band quits after threats and cleric's decree

The three teenage members of Pragaash (which translates as "First Light") told reporters in India's only Muslim-majority state they were sorry if "the people" were unhappy with their music and...

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