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Sutirtha Sahariah is a journalist and researcher focusing on women, work and violence in South Asia. He has previously covered stories on human trafficking and gender violence for The Guardian, BBC, Dutch Public Radio & Television. Follow him @sutiboy.
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Women’s care homes in India are meant to offer protection for those who have nowhere else to go. But activists, authorities and former residents accuse the overcrowded, understaffed homes of trapping women in a cycle of abuse.
The Delhi High Court is hearing petitions on whether to criminalize marital rape in India, a country where acts of sexual violence by husbands are 40 times more common than those committed by anyone else.
In New Delhi slums, a charity is training women paralegals to represent residents being denied their benefits, helping them file grievances with the government through text messages.
In Nepal, thousands of women who work in massage parlors, dance bars and live-entertainment restaurants are at a high risk of sexual exploitation. One charity is trying to help women escape this trap – and prevent others from getting into it.
A case currently before India’s Supreme Court is bringing renewed attention to triple talaq, which alllows a Muslim man to divorce his wife by simply writing or saying ‘I divorce you’ three times.
India’s devadasi system, which “dedicates” girls to deities and to a life of sex work in the name of religion, was banned nationwide back in 1988. However, the practice persists in some parts of India.
Shunned by their own families, thousands of Hindu widows make their way to the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India to find solace. But most also end up impoverished and neglected.
As part of our series on women in Myanmar, we look at an innovative charity that helps women talk about sex and sexuality, challenging traditional concepts of female subservience and demureness.
In India, when a girl starts her period she can become isolated, leading to her dropping out of school and marrying young. One book wants to break the cycle by using child-friendly comics to spread the facts and tackle the myths about menstruation.
Sparked by a brutal gang rape case in 2012, India has made progress in reducing the rate of violence against women. But Rishi Kant, one of the brothers behind the charity Shakti Vahini, says abuse of women and girls can only end when men and boys are actively involved.
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