Decolonisation of witchcraft in Africa and its effects on women’s equality
By Alex Costagliola Today, witchcraft and occult practices in Africa are largely understood within the context of pre-colonial and colonial views that conflated local,...
How we fail women abroad
Women are raped, mutilated, or sold as sex slaves, meanwhile we look the other way. Here Alexander Alley discusses the statistics and stories that...
Feminist Economics: What they don’t teach you in an Economics Degree
Sam Wigglesworth highlights a feminist economics critique of mainstream economics. In particular Sam shows how women in the global economy are disadvantaged under the...
Women in Indian society: reflections from a current India intern
This is the first of a series of blogs done by Holly Peacock, one of Development in Actions India Interns. Holly will discuss her...
Forget sweatshops; what can factories do for women?
Paula Williamson evaluates the opportunities that factories in Bangladesh provide for women. She argues that factories are providing women opportunities. However, there are still...
Shutting down the EVAW debate: a setback for women’s rights in Afghanistan?
MPs in Afghanistan shut down a recent debate on violence against women. DiA blogger Courtenay Howe reports on the Law to Eliminate Violence Against...
In the Shadow of a Man – film review
Last month, DocHouse Documentary Festival screened In the Shadow of a Man, a film about four Egyptian women and their lives both before and...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Tall as the Baobab Tree
In the fourth of our series of reviews from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Holly Young reflects on the issue of child brides...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Salma
In the second of the DiA Blog’s series of reviews from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013, Louisa Jones reflects on Salma, the...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: The Patience Stone
In the first of a series of reviews from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013, blog editor Emily Wight finds a moving account...
Reflecting on attitudes towards women in India
Two weeks after a medical student was gang-raped and killed in Delhi, Daniel Hinchliffe, who is volunteering with Seva Mandir in Udaipur, reflected on...
After “Damini”: the Delhi gang rape and women’s empowerment in India
The recent gang-rape and subsequent death of a 23 year old woman in Delhi has sparked condemnation all over the world. Former DiA 2-month...
The garment industry in Bangladesh – from a woman’s perspective
. Most of us are aware when we shop in Primark or H&M that the cheap clothes are made thanks to workers in developing...
Renaming themselves, reclaiming identities: Indian girls no longer “Unwanted”
. Last week the Indian state of Maharashtra hosted a ceremony to re-name girls whose names meant “Unwanted”. Aman Johal considers some of the problems Indian girls...
The Girl Effect
DiA blogger Lynsey Logan discusses the visions and efforts of The Girl Effect – an empowerment campaign which recognises the important role six hundred...
Empowering Women
DiA writer Emily Wight reflects on the impact women empowerment initiatives – focused on increasing participation in the workplace – can have on developing...
Women in Egypt: ‘Why Not?’
In the second part of DiA’s exclusive coverage of International Women’s Day, Cardiff University Journalism students Sara Maranon and Sandhya Kannan investigate how the...
International Women’s Day 2011
DiA’s Development Education Officer, Jessie Kirk, reports on the thousands of events that are taking place across the world on March 8th, as part...