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A spectacular host of inspiring women made urgent call to arms at the COP26. Here, we show you some of the highlights.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew have claimed his alleged rape victim, Virginia Giuffre, searched for ‘slutty girls’ to bring to Jeffrey Epstein. 

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand will reduce its net greenhouse emissions by 50 per cent by 2030.

Next year’s election for Governor of New York will see two women running against each other for the first time in the state’s history. 

Women make up half of Canada’s cabinet, as they have done since Trudeau’s Liberal government was first elected in 2015.

A feminist Lyon-based activist group in France is suing Miss France for alleged discriminatory entry requirements.

Mexico City has confirmed a statue of an Indigenous woman will replace a one of Christopher Columbus located on the city’s main boulevard.

Journalist Maria Ressa, from the Philippines, has won the Nobel Peace Prize, recognised for her work defending press freedom.

Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has said Australia must do more to address the threat of climate change.

President Kais Saied publicly declared the appointment of Najla Bouden Romdhane as the first female prime minister in Tunisia. 

A recount showed Iceland has just missed out on a majority-female parliament, with women set to make up almost 48 per cent of the parliament.

A group of prominent athletes have urged the supreme court to protect abortion rights ahead of an upcoming Mississippi case that threatens to overturn Roe v Wade.