Megha Mohan

The CJA Awards 2025 | Criminal Justice Alliance The CJA Awards 2025

Really pleased to share that I have been shortlisted for the Outstanding Journalism category in the Criminal Justice Alliance Awards for my work on violence against women, modern slavery victims in prison, and women in prison.

www.criminaljusticealliance.org/cja-awards/c...

17.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 181    🔁 17    💬 14    📌 1

Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.

12.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 96    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

South Africa's Constitutional Court rules that men can take wife's surname - BBC News The highest court rules that a law barring men from taking the surnames of their wives is a "colonial import".

South Africa's highest court has ruled that husbands can take the surname of their wives, overturning a law that barred them from doing so! The Constitutional Court ruled that the law was a "colonial import" that amounted to gender-based discrimination. www.bbc.com/news/article...

11.09.2025 14:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

British soldiers still paying for sex in Kenya despite ban Inquiry raises questions about MoD failure to stop soldiers exploiting women after it told us it issued no sanctions

🔴NEW🔴 A service inquiry has confirmed that men are still paying for sex in Kenya, three years after the MoD imposed a ban on transactional sex.

www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-a...

13.08.2025 11:28 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

UN officials warn of starvation amid ‘gender emergency’ in war-torn Sudan Hungry civilians are reportedly eating animal feed as women and girls face a “gender emergency” in war-torn Sudan, UN officials said on Thursday.

The UN has declared Sudan a "gender emergency".

The Unit for Combating Violence Against Women in Sudan, as of March 2025, there have been 1,138 cases of rape recorded since April 2023, including 193 children, most of whom were in conflict-affected areas.

news.un.org/en/story/202....

12.08.2025 11:01 — 👍 11    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

A woman with long dark hair smiles while holding a framed proof of the book “Herlands” by Megha Mohan. The book cover features bold, wavy patterns in red, white, and navy, with the subtitle “Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules.”

Excited for my book on communities where women around the world live without men. I love the cover - the waves/braids represent unity, upheaval, and new systems being created. Herlands: lessons from societies where women make the rules is out March 6th www.penguin.co.uk/books/462518...

02.08.2025 08:59 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

'전 남편 동의 없이 냉동배아로 임신'...배우 이시영의 선택이 던진 질문 - BBC News 코리아 배우 이시영이 혼인 관계 중 냉동 보관했던 배아를 이혼 후 이식해 둘째를 임신한 사실이 알려지며 법적 책임과 여성의 생식 선택권에 대한 사회적 논의를 불러일으키고 있다.

Very interesting gender story from BBC Korea Service, K-drama actress Lee Si Young, announced she is pregnant with her second child from her ex husband- baby was conceived using a frozen fertilised embryos AFTER they broke up, and without her ex’s permission.
www.bbc.com/korean/artic...

16.07.2025 16:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Indian tennis player Radhika Yadav, 25, has shot dead by her father at their residence. Indian media reports that he shot her 3 times from behind, because she refused to close her tennis academy upon being told to do so. He had allegedly been taunted by his daughter’s financial independence.

14.07.2025 13:09 — 👍 53    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 5