In Iran, it’s a crime for women to appear in public with their hair uncovered. Yasaman Aryani, a 24-year-old Iranian woman, wanted to make change and ended up being sentenced to 16 years in pris…
A football stadium is the main frontier for women’s rights in Iran today
Tehran, Iran: March 2019. A woman is arrested while trying to gain entry to the Azadi Stadium to watch a game of football after her gender is revealed to stadium security guards. Women have been banne…
Evelyn Hernandez acquitted of stillbirth murder charge in landmark case
A Salvadoran court has acquitted Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez of an aggravated homicide conviction, a result of her having delivered a stillborn child in April 2016. 21-year-old Hernandez is a victim of r…
Detained women’s rights activist Loujain al-Halthloul chooses to be tortured rather than lie
The Saudi government arrested women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul a year ago for speaking out against the country’s extreme laws which give women fewer rights than men. Now, they are willing t…
Alabama woman charged with the death of her fetus after being shot
Alabama’s seriously questionable legal system has just reached an all new level of atrocious. Yesterday, a woman was charged with fetal manslaughter after she was involved in a fight which saw h…
Saudi women are going to college, running for office and changing the conservative country
Saudi women are much more than mere victims. Increasingly, they are becoming a diverse group that defy the law to expand women’s rights, writes Alainna Liloia, from University of Arizona, in thi…
(Another) UPDATE: Treasury gives TWO spots to women’s groups in budget lock up
On Tuesday we reported that a number of community organisations representing women, children and Indigenous Australians, that have routinely attended the annual Federal budget lock up, had been exclud…
How to fight for women & girls without burning out
“Is this the 1950s?” It’s the question Katja Iversen, the CEO of international advocacy group Women Deliver, poses rhetorically when discussing the rise of conservative forces in Ame…
Get your hand up for an opportunity – just be ready for the added scrutiny
Labor’s new deputy leader in the senate, Senator Jacinta Collins, is an example of a woman who knows an opportunity when she sees one and the need to put her hand up to grab it. We haven’t…
How Australian women rallied together online to deliver real change in 2016
2016 was the year that everyday Australian women wielded real power online. Women helped deliver eight of the ten biggest social change victories of 2016 on Change.org, up from 5 out of 10 last year. …
