Gender and Feminisms

A survey has shown that nearly one-third of British female surgeons has experienced sexual assault over the past five years. The study’s results were published by the British Journal of Surgery on Tuesday. The report said the results “indicate that both sexual…

In recent days, Surrogacy returned to the news, after the right-wing has flaunted the weapon of prohibitionist propaganda, declaring it a “universal crime”. Although right-wing prohibitionism is not a solution, it has been clear for years how neoliberalism in Italy…

Machirulo in Spain is a man who boasts of being undisguisedly macho, and is generally used in a derogatory sense. In Chile, the word used is machito. Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has…

Emigrating was an agonising decision for Cuban Ana Iraida. She left behind family and friends; in her backpack she carried many aspirations, but also the fear of being harassed on the journey to the United States. “My salary and that…

Since coming to power in Afghanistan two years ago, the Taliban have banned more than 1.1 million young girls from secondary and university education. By Leonardo Buitrago The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday announced its decision to support clandestine schools…

It promised to be the most defining, innovative and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its scope and unique in its comprehensive nature, covering issues such as HIV/AIDS, widows’ rights and access to property…

“One discovers that one’s greatest destiny has to do with the meaning of life, which is from one towards others”. Silo The horizon of life is modified if there is a vital project, a profound purpose. What do I mean…

According to a recent study by the BBC, in fields such as engineering and technology, this phenomenon can be explained by the demand to meet certain standards in areas that for years have been more “masculine”. By: Horacio Gutiérrez Areyte…

Guwahati: The Assam government in Northeast India, which earned national and international media headlines with the crackdown on child marriages in February, is going to relaunch the drive across the State. Addressing the fourth SP (superintendent of police) conference at…

On the occasion of the International Day Against Trafficking of 30 July, the Pope John XXIII Community has released the report “The new faces of people trapped in trafficking” on its website Here is a summary. The faces of trafficking…