Society

Queensland’s first Pink Sleepbus will provide vulnerable women and children a safe place to rest on the Sunshine Coast next month. A specialised service providing “compassion and a hand up”,…

Despite the enormous potential of technology, digital tools, and the internet, these have also perpetuated gender disparities and introduced new forms of oppression for women and girls. For many, technology-facilitated…

Iceland is seen globally as a bastion of equality, a place where the rights of all citizens are upheld regardless of gender. But even Iceland doesn’t have full parity when…

YSL Beauty have released a new campaign to help highlight some of the warning signs of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The new digital series, Mistaken For Love, forms part of the…

AUSTRALIA/Yasha Watkins and Faye Paliadelis are pensioners who are doing something in their retirement they never thought possible. They’re house sharing. And it’s not by choice — they say skyrocketing rents…

UNITEDKINGDOM/Women are also less likely to say they have checked their state pension age, according to Royal London. Women are around twice as likely as men to be expecting to…

Immense strides have been made in the quest for gender equality, but major barriers thrown up by the patriarchal system must be dismantled so women can play a fuller role…

ANKARA/Hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday in several Turkish cities including Istanbul and Ankara against a move to close one of the country’s most respected women’s rights groups. “It is…

AUSTRALIA/ In photos of her face taken the Saturday night she was knocked unconscious, Ashley’s* eye is swollen and purple, a dark bruise spilling from her lashline to her cheekbone.…

The head of the UN agency that champions gender equality on Tuesday urged the international community  to continue pressing for change in Afghanistan, accusing the Taliban of imposing “the most…