Entries tagged with “Leni Limbu”
Women
,Dec 03, 2025
Women in Prison and on Death Row: A Global Analysis
The Guardian’s recent four-part series examines the experiences of women in prison around the world, with a focus on those facing the death penalty. The series illuminates a largely overlooked issue within global criminal legal systems: the failure to recognize how gender-based violence shapes women’s journeys to incarceration and death row. The global incarceration of women has reached its highest levels, with more than 733,000 women and girls held in prisons and jails worldwide. This number…