Italy: The women taking on the mafia
Italy's southern Puglia region is the territory of the Sacra Corona Unita, also known as the "fourth mafia". Less well known than Cosa Nostra, the Camorra or the 'Ndrangheta, the criminal group…
Guardian Woman Festival: Care As A Business And Economic Driver of Progress in Nigeria
The Business of Care and Well-Being Topic: Care As A Business And Economic Driver of Progress in Nigeria…
Women in Syria: Could the future be female?
A nation emerging from decades of a brutal dictatorship. The country's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a constitutional declaration, laying out rights for women and freedom of expression. This after his…
Guardian Woman Festival: Financing The Future of Inclusive Business Growth
The Business of Financing And Investment Topic: Financing The Future Of Inclusive Business Growth…
‘To say goodbye’: An intimate tale of women and invisible social boundaries
In today's Entre Nous, we're going to take a look at a new documentary about an elderly woman leaving the home in Brazil where she lived for some sixty years to head…
Indian Dalit women, girls targeted by upper-caste rapists
In India, rapists are more likely to attack women and girls from the Dalit community than from other groups. DW correspondent Shalu Yadav met a victim who was raped by an upper-caste…
Egyptian documentary shows young women hovering on ‘The Brink of Dreams’
Majda, Monika and Heidi are part of the Panorama theatre troupe in the village of El Barsha, a small Coptic Christian community in the south of Egypt. As they devise and perform…
IWD: Celebrating Women’s Value to Our World
These are the women defining the future in Nigeria. They are not just part of the conversation, they are leading it.…
Women can have a dark streak too: The need for more research into female psychopaths
Now when you think of a psychopath, what images immediately come to mind? Most likely that of a man; be it Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson or Joseph Stalin.…
Women lead in over half of Hollywood movies for first time
A majority of major movies had female protagonists for the first time in 2024. At the same time, representation of racial minorities saw little improvement.…
Power moves: the women changing Africa’s leadership
From Ghana to Namibia, recent appointments of women to top political positions have been encouraging. But with more women in significant roles, are African nations really boosting female political representation?…