Ayesha Khan

Report

12 February 2025

Women from diverse backgrounds and grassroots communities protest at an event organised by SIHA calling for democracy and women’s human rights, Khartoum, Sudan, 2019 Credit: Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)/Ula Osman.
How women's movements lead demands for democracy in the face of backlash and politicised religion
Authors: Ayesha Khan, Sam Sharp

Report

8 September 2024

Cover illustration by Reya Ahmed
Whose hands on our education? Identifying and countering gender-restrictive backlash
Authors: Sophia M. D’Angelo, Rachel Marcus, Ayesha Khan, Olha Homonchuk

Report

22 February 2024

Cover of report
Changing social norms around age of marriage in Afghanistan: data on repression and resistance under the Taliban
Authors: Mariam Safi, Evie Browne, Ayesha Khan, Tony Kamninga

Blog

8 January 2024

Looking back on 2023 display on computer on desk.. Shutterstock ID: 2379048867/Linaimages
Gender norms: 12 insights from 2023, and what to look out for in 2024
Authors: Evie Browne, Caroline Harper, Diana Jiménez Thomas Rodriguez, Ayesha Khan, Carmen Leon-Himmelstine, Rachel Marcus, Ján Michalko, Aatif Somji, Emily Subden, Natasha Wright

Blog

16 August 2023

Women Deliver plenary on the anti-rights movement, Kigali. Credit: Women Deliver
Lessons on backlash from Women Deliver: tackling the enemy in the room
Author: Ayesha Khan

Briefing paper

10 July 2023

Facing the backlash image
Facing the backlash: what is fuelling anti-feminist and anti-democratic forces?
Authors: Ayesha Khan, Emilie Tant, Caroline Harper