From battlefields to political stages, India’s women freedom fighters defied colonial power and societal norms to shape the ...

New Delhi: In 1942, as India’s fight for independence raged elsewhere, resistance rose within the walls of Lahore women’s jail. A group of imprisoned women—freedom fighters, mothers, and young ...

TIL KOCHER, Syria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every night before 27-year-old Arin goes to bed, she hangs her Makarov, a Russian semi-automatic pistol, from a steel coat rack by the entrance to her ...

SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing ...

?The role of women in Kenya’s liberation struggle from colonialism is often overlooked with majority of feted heroes being men. In life and after death, nothing much is said of them as many have ...

Sojourner Truth -- Biddy Mason -- Harriet Tubman -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Ella Josephine Baker -- Dorothy Irene Height -- Rosa Parks ...

SONEPUR : In a bid to formally recognise the role of martyr Gurubari Meher in India’s freedom struggle, the Sonepur administration has decided to name one classroom in every government school of the ...

“They were allowed to visit their husbands and sons in detention and they would tell them what the British were planning and doing out there,” he explained. This helped the men plan how they would ...