Donald Trump’s first administration as US president attacked women’s rights across a broad range of issues, including undermining access to birth control, eroding efforts to end the pay gap between ...

It’s no coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing trans sports bans echoes the work of Reem Alsalem, the UN ...

These are arguably the most feminist and female-friendly countries on earth, where gender equality is at its highest and women can rest assured their rights and protections are top priority.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The killing of prominent Iraqi women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed has fuelled an outpouring of grief and calls for justice, ...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 08: Demonstrators hold a rally and march to voice support of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision by the U.S.Supreme Court that legalized abortion without excessive ...

Where is one of worst places to be a woman? Afghanistan. That’s what most people think when it comes to the topic of the women’s rights crisis under the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. But this only ...

Afghan lawyer Benafsha Yaqoobi has been chosen as one of the winners of the U.S. State Department's 2024 International Women of Courage Award. Yaqoobi, who is visually impaired, has advocated for ...

Autocracies now outnumber democracies, and nearly three-quarters of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule. Over the past decade, dictators in China and Russia consolidated their ...

A majority of people in Afghanistan support human rights for Afghan women, and men are especially likely to support women's rights when primed to think about their eldest daughters, according to a ...

Sweden is deporting young women to countries where they could face severe gender-based rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today. Media reported that in 2025, at least 92 young adults were set ...

Melissa Fleming is the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications as of 1 September 2019. Having grown up in war-torn rural Zimbabwe, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda overcame extreme ...