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A scene from the documentary 'Heroic Bodies,' a history of Sudanese women's repression and revolution.

New film brings Sudanese women’s fight to the big screen

Director Sara Suleiman has not flinched from showing a history suffering and exploitation, but the rare and dazzling quality of this documentary is its all-pervading sense of hope and optimism

Areej Jamal 19 August 2024

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Does AI help women or simply widen the gender gap?

Artificial Intelligence is helping human endeavour in all manner of fields but the technology is no longer in its infancy and should be equalising imbalances, not accentuating them.

Joudy El-Asmar 02 July 2024

President of Spain Pedro Sanchez, center bottom, addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Flashes of Bold UN Talk On Feminism, Masculinity, Patriarchy

Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month, but the ones who did went there boldly: claiming feminist credibility, selling “positive…

AP 25 September 2022

Thousands of women participate in 'Women's March for Bread and Roses' in central London as part of global protest taking place in 30 countries around the world. (Getty)

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Each year in early April, women inthe United Statesmark Equal Pay Day, the date on which their earnings finally reach the amount American men took home the previous year. Women who hold year-round,…

Rachel Vogelstein and Alexandra Bro 18 May 2019

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