A controversial women’s rights protest in the ultra-Orthodox community of Kiryas Joel is raising awareness to a centuries-old religious law that Jewish activists say is “trapping” women in unhappy and ...

That's how I feel.” Rahmani expressed particular concern for the rights of women, which she fears will be rolled back after ...

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 ...

On April 23, it had been 1,677 days. It will have been more by the time you read this. That’s the number of days that girls ...

A majority of women globally are committed to advancing women’s rights and participation in government, according to a recent United Nations survey. The We the Women survey reveals that despite facing ...

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 ...

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The failure to protect women’s rights in Afghanistan undercuts the credibility of human rights around the world.

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 ...