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Ananke LitFest to Commemorate Dalit History Month With Two Special Sessions
The 2025 Edition of Ananke’s Festival of Literature arrives at a time when... -
Ananke LitFest Celebrates Cinema of Dissent, Power & Protest With All Female South Asian Filmmakers
Some films do more than entertain—they challenge set norms, address injustice, and inspire...
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Geneva: Globally, 308 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across 73 countries, a figure that continues to rise with escalating conflict, climate change, food insecurity, and disease outbreaks.... -
The number of people at risk of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, has tripled to over 12 million since the beginning of the war New York / Port... -
New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveals limited progress in achieving gender equality in political leadership at the start of 2025, the year which marks... -
Women’s and girls’ rights are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programs and institutions that support and...
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The United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985) originated the concept Women in Development (WID). Influenced by feminist discourse of early 70’s in the Global North, it aimed to integrate... -
Tell us about yourself, where you are from, and a bit about your childhood that led you to choose your career and educational path. I’m Fatima Alshamsi, an Emirati... -
Art imitates life. It not only mirrors society, but also supplies a mirror through which social norms, taboos, stereotypes and deeply entrenched belief systems can be discovered by a... -
November 25th, 2024, (New York/Vienna): On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, the report Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides by UN...
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Empowering New Parents Through Technology
Tell us about yourself and your professional journey. My name is Apolline, and... -
Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in Pakistan’s Evolving Tech Sector
While Pakistan is going through severe economic and political turmoil at the moment,...
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The art of sowing seeds of division among people, nations, can best be learnt from the colonial-thinking, imperialist West. Be it the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Balfour Declaration, the San Remo... -
In an age of distraction, where the present clutches tightly at our gaze, Dr. Kanika Gupta chooses to look back, deep into the crevices of time, where myths still... -
Seated in my chauffeur-driven car (disclaimer: as I am visually impaired and do not drive after daylight), I told my 17 and 15 year old children to refrain from... -
The United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985) originated the concept Women in Development (WID). Influenced by feminist discourse of early 70’s in the Global North, it aimed to integrate...
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Faiqa Mansab’s The Sufi Storyteller is a luminous, multi-layered narrative that fuses the mysticism of Sufi traditions with the gritty urgency of contemporary crime fiction. It is at once... -
In modern warfare, control over digital infrastructure has become as critical as control over physical territory. Recent investigations have largely exposed how Israel has abused BigTech to commit war... -
The Comeback is a restrained yet incisive exploration of friendship, betrayal, artistic integrity, and the elusive nature of success. Set against the backdrop of the entertainment industry and small-town... -
The kitchen has long been a contested space in a woman’s life. A place of both nourishment and negotiation, creation, and confinement. It is where traditions are preserved, family...