July2024

  • On Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

    On Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

    Buy the Book In Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Published by Anthem Press, 2022, also available at Folio Press), the author, Amina Yaqin takes us on a journey into the vibrant yet understudied domain of progressive women’s poetry in Urdu, presenting a deeply nuanced and rigorous...
  • 300,000 Haitian women and girls are displaced without basic safety, health services

    300,000 Haitian women and girls are displaced without basic safety, health services 

    New York, Port au Prince: A recent report by UN Women shows the alarming living conditions and lack of security faced by 300,000 displaced women and girls in Haiti, exacerbated by ongoing political instability, escalating gang violence, and hurricane season further threatening the Caribbean Island. With women and girls...
  • Gambia Reaffirms Commitments to Gender Equality, Protecting Women, Girls

    Gambia Reaffirms Commitment to Gender Equality, Protecting Women, Girls

    Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, UNFPA Executive Director, Natalia Kanem, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UN Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. BANJUL/GENEVA/NEW YORK: Following the vote today by the National Assembly of The Gambia, we commend...
  • Author Safinah Danish Elahi’s novel shortlisted for prestigious Asian Fiction Prize 2023.

    Author Safinah Danish Elahi’s novel shortlisted for prestigious Asian Fiction Prize 2023.

    Pakistani author Safinah Danish Elahi’s contemporary fiction novel, The Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Asian Fiction Prize 2023. Previously long-listed from a selection of thirteen writers, the shortlist includes writers from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria and the only novel from Pakistan...
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