women’s rights

Susan Ryan, a formidable trailblazer for women in politics, and Australia’s first ever female, Minister for Women, has died aged 77.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was truly the anti-Trump. We need more of her courage, conviction and commitment to progress in the face of hate.

One of the world’s most recognised icons for gender equality, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away overnight at the age of 87.

In a rare victory for women’s rights in Afghanistan, mothers’ names will be permitted to be included on their children’s birth certificates.

In Egypt, female social media influencers have been sentenced to jail for posting ‘indecent videos’ that according to the state, ‘violate public morals’.

In Geneva over the weekend, Switzerland’s women stage mass scream to end gender pay gap and highlight violence against women.

Yasaman Aryani wanted to make change and ended up being sentenced to 16 years in prison for campaigning against forced veiling.

Sahar Khodayari was arrested while entering Azadi Stadium to watch a game of football after her gender is revealed to stadium security guards.

A Salvadoran court has acquitted Evelyn Hernandez of an aggravated homicide conviction, a result of her having delivered a stillborn child in April 2016.

The Saudi government arrested women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul a year ago for speaking out against the country’s laws.

An Alabaman woman was charged with fetal manslaughter after she was involved in a fight which saw her shot in the stomach, resulting in a miscarriage.

Saudi women are becoming a diverse group that defy the law to expand women’s rights, writes Alainna Liloia, from University of Arizona,