Women's Rights

Women’s needs are often being put last in pandemic response strategies, women leaders told virtual WEF meeting.

After securing historic gains, the political engagement and representation of Tunisian women is now waning alarmingly.

Supreme Court to hear charges by leading singer and actress Meesha Shafi against another singer and...

The Argentine Senate voted 38 to 29 in favour of legalising elective abortion on December 30.

German legislators move to even up executive boards after voluntary efforts to close the country’s gender gap failed.

Lahore High Court said a virginity test is ‘invasive and an infringement on the privacy of a woman to her body’.

Some elected Dalit councillors have filed complaints in court against daily humiliation from upper-caste Hindus.

Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women and family affairs, dedicated the move to ‘worthy and patient Iranian women’.

UK says Brexit made it possible to drop sales tax on period products, given country is no longer bound by EU rules.

Pioneering women who spent decades fighting for abortion rights in Argentina look back at their victorious struggle.

People express shock and anger over the killing of academic in Istanbul amid rising violence against women.

Senate debates bill that could make Argentina the largest country in Latin America to legalise abortion.

Ex-student’s conviction for harassing two women is the first in a case that sparked #MeToo movement in the Arab nation.

Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to five years and eight months in prison on charges including ‘agitating for change’.