Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...

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After years of languishing in the bottom ten, Saudi Arabia has been inching up the ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Index, now coming 126th out of 146 countries in the 2024 report.

“For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” This year’s theme calls for action that can unlock equal rights, power and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one ...

As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria’s Assad regime, the future of women’s rights remains precarious. Power transitions in ...

A Programme of Action called for stronger national measures to ensure women’s ownership and control of property, as well as improvements in protecting women’s rights to inheritance, child custody and ...

women’s rights organizations, government actors and implementing partners. The Netherlands provides comprehensive services to survivors of violence (including conflict related SGBV) and prevention ...

Triumph helped popularize the three-cylinder motorcycle engine, but the smallest one was equipped on three very distinctive ...

UN Women’s work on youth and gender equality is guided by key global norms and standards that recognize the human rights of young women and girls. Among the most prominent are: The 1979 Convention on ...

What is the Equal Rights Amendment? First introduced by women's rights activist Alice Paul in 1923, the ERA is a succinct declaration of equality: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be ...

Throughout the changing political landscape of Afghanistan in the last fifty years, women have been campaigning for their rights and made some gains but the issue has also been exploited by different ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood’s president, addresses an audience during an event in Hooksett, N.H ...