Bangladeshi women try on rare leadership roles for a fairer fashion future
Training schemes to help female garment workers become team supervisors offer skills that could protect their livelihoods as owners eye greener, high-tech factories
Afghan all-girl robotics team members, journalists land in Mexico
The robotics team, made up of women and girls as young as 14, has won international awards for their robots
Afghan women's hard-won land rights seen at risk under Taliban
The militant group imposed a strict Islamic law that largely denied women’s property rights during its last rule, and campaigners fear fragile gains could now be lost
Taliban rule presents aid agencies with moral, fiscal dilemma
To continue investment in Afghanistan means to engage with the ruling Taliban, but to pull funding in a country dependent on international aid means abandoning 38 million Afghans
As Taliban return, Afghanistan's female orchestra fears the future
I conducted Afghanistan's first all-female orchestra, Zohra. With the Taliban's takeover, I fear we may never play our instruments again.
Australia evacuates more than 50 female Afghan athletes and dependents - ABC
About 1,000 people have been evacuated on Australian flights, including about 50 female athletes and their dependents
All-women's Islamic choir smashes gender taboos in Egypt
In socially conservative Egypt, trailblazing choral group challenges male domination of a traditional musical discipline
Afghan women's faces disappear online and in the street after Taliban takeover
Rights campaigners have warned that digital footprints could be used by the militant group to target people
OPINION: The changing landscape for women under Taliban rule
What life and restrictions for women under the Taliban rule will turn out to be will depend on the power struggle among their factions
Slaves to deforestation: Labor abuses fuel Brazil's Amazon destruction
A spike in rainforest loss since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took power has provoked an international outcry, but the workers who do the logging, often in slave-like conditions, remain invisible