Month: July 2019

How A Financial Management Training Helped These Women To Change Their Lives

by Tehreem Azeem

Sixty-five-year-old Naseem Bibi runs a grocery shop inside her house in a village near Hyderabad, Sindh. She opened this shop a year ago after attending Financial Management Training (FMT) organized by Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre as part of its project ‘Drivers of Change’. ‘Now, I buy my medicines myself. I do not have…

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Kalimantan Women Losing Their Children to Mine Pits

by Marrium Jameela

East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province in the east of the island of Borneo, is home of indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas like Kutai National Park. If we try to uncover the problems of local women in Kalimantan, we will find horrific stories of pain and miseries. Women, here, not only struggle against domestic violence…

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Bollywood: The Misogynist Songs

by Almas Virani

It’s a gloomy day in Hyderabad, the pearl city of India. There is love in the air. Love that stinks of fear, obsession, toxic masculinity, and misogyny. 27-year-old Ajay is waiting outside a girls’ college ready with the ‘song of the day’ for his ‘love’. He plays a new Bollywood song on his phone for…

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Row of Tragedies: Sexual Violence in Indonesia

by Marrium Jameela

Jakarta has become one of the most insecure cities for women in the world – a bad achievement for Indonesia which has 135 million female residents. The issue of sexual violence in Indonesia is one of the scary scourges. The high rate of sexual violence is also because of the reason that there are no laws…

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