The Turkish-German Seyran Ateş is a feminist, activist, lawyer and co-founder of the liberal Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque in Berlin.

It is hard to miss the irony in convening in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the summum of big city life that is New York, to discuss women and girls living in rural areas.

Rural women and their empowerment to achieve gender equality is the central theme of the 2018 annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

Impressions of the Rosa Manus Lecture 2018 by Maxine Molyneux on Latin American feminism.

The #MeToo discussion, which has dominated public debate worldwide over the past weeks, has also penetrated the EU bubble.

A seminar at the Dutch Embassy in Tokyo on current gender issues in the Netherlands and Japan.

It’s been a decade since I’m working as a journalist in the biggest muslim community in the world, Indonesia. I covered so many issues, namely, women issues, terrorism, radicalism, LGBT issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender), corruption, human rights, etc.

However much support Minister Ploumen has managed to gather for her SheDecides fund, it has also generated some fierce opposition with a strong voice here at the UN.