Women continue to fight on today's battlefields; for our bodies, for our faith, for our rights.
Document Women has gathered five stories from around the globe.
Nigeria
Protests broke out in the state of Sokoto, with Muslim mobs clamoring for the release of Deborah Samuels' murder suspects. Deborah Samuels was a Christian student who was…
Greta Tintin Elenora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who gained popularity after protesting in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018. At the time, Ms Thunberg was only 15 years old. Since then, she has been nominated three consecutive times (2019-2021) for a Nobel Peace Prize for her climate change activism.
Early Life…
The year is coming to a close and families are spending more time together, but across the globe women continue to demand for rights to their bodies, safety and livelihoods.
Document Women has gathered stories from across the globe for you.
China
In China, a hospital can currently only let pregnant women deliver by caesarean…
Veronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, artist and academic from Côte d’Ivoire whose impactful work earned her the Medal of Commander of Arts and Letters from the government of France, one of the country’s most prestigious national honours conferred on those who had “significantly contributed to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance.”
The medal…
The holidays have come around and the year is coming to a close but across the globe, women continue to fight for their rights. This week, Document Women has gathered stories of activism, bravery and success.
Kenya
Sex workers in Kenya have reignited calls to decriminalize their work after new details emerge from the 2012…
Maya Angelou was an American writer, poet, and civil rights activist. Her works, which include seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, are considered a defense of black culture. She played a role in the civil rights movement and worked with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
Early Life and Education…
This week, the world has celebrated and acknowledged human rights, but women continue to fight for theirs. Document Women has gathered five stories from across the globe.
Turkey
The documentary "Dying Divorce" goes over the efforts of activists working to end violence against women in Turkey. It has been selected as the United Kingdom’s official…
On December 7, Equinix Inc. announced expansion into Africa through its intended acquisition of MainOne, the leading West African broadband infrastructure company, with occupancy in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire, at an enterprise value of $320 million.
This acquisition by Equinix Inc. acknowledged as the first step towards a long-term strategy to becoming an African…
Maimuna Dada-Sare Abdullahi (1918-1984) was a Northern Nigerian writer, a nurse, a teacher and an administrator. Her decade-long romantic relationship with Rupert East challenged the cultural and social assumptions of Colonial Northern Nigeria.
Early life
Maimuna Dada Sare was born in Gola, in 1918 in the Bajama district of Adamawa province of Northern Nigeria. When…
Doja Cat has created the first-ever codable music video for her song, Woman, a hit single off her second and most recent album Planet her. The music star invited users and fans to unlock the content of the video using code.
In a tweet posted on Saturday, the singer announced that she had teamed up…