The media review presents every month a selection of articles from different media sources on “gender and development” issues. the list of articles is regularly updated during the current month.

May 2019

1-15 May

• ‘You Should Be in the Kitchen’: At Afghan Assembly, Women Are Told They Don’t Belong (The New York Times)
• When One of the World’s Most Visible Athletes Is Told She Can’t Be One (The New York Times)
• A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages (The New York Times)
• In India’s Elections, Female Candidates Still Need Men’s Blessings (The New York Times)
• Abortion Bans: 8 States Have Passed Bills to Limit the Procedure This Year (The New York Times)

16-31 May

• Google changes policy to block misleading ads for anti-abortion groups (The Guardian)
• #youknowme – women mobilise against U.S. abortion crackdown (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
• ‘I don’t feel safe’: Alabama newspapers publish letters by women on abortion ban (The Guardian)
• Standing tall: first black African woman scales Everest (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
• Argentine filmmaker shines light on country’s abortion battle at Cannes (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
• Have India’s women seized their chance to vote for a safer, more equal country? (The Guardian)
• Women’s rights under attack in Europe, say feminist parties (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
• Egyptian women use ancient Indonesian martial arts to fight abuse (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
• Schoolgirls used as human shields in Congo due to ‘magical powers’ – charities (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
• Afghan working women still face perils at home and office (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

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