I’ve always admired mountains from afar but never imagined that one day I’d be part of the first female expedition of Pakistan to scale the approximately 5720 m Baaushal Peak!

Text and pictures: Anam Gill (Ed.: Brenda Haas)

I hadn’t paid much attention to the British royal family in years, not since Princess Diana’s death. It had kind of slipped away into an elite world of pop-cultural irrelevance, popping up on my newsfeed only when Prince Harry went partying or to Africa for a visit.

See how women perform in jobs that are often still considered “men’s jobs” and what they have to say.

More than 230 women and children live at a so-called widows camp built by fellow refugees with the help of donor funds for Rohingya widows and orphans to offer them better protection and shelter.

Occasionally periods of social regression and progressive developments occur simultaneously. After all, among the many catastrophic reports emerging from the Arab world there are also a few glimmers of hope – for women.

Imagine you are a divorce attorney, who once represented a client caught in an abusive marriage. One day, you are with your father and your client, when her now ex-husband turns up on the scene. An argument breaks out and the man starts shooting. He kills his ex-wife and your father and injures you before turning the gun on himself.

According to UN Women the distressed and traumatized displaced Rohingya – approximately 51% of which are women and girls – lives in terrible conditions and lacks adequate food, water, sanitation, medical care and access to their livelihoods and assets. This picture gallery depicts only part of their suffering.