women’s rights

If a parliament can modernise its rules to make space for breastfeeding, then other institutions and businesses can too.

Women in Pakistan are still being silenced and harmed, and it’s past time for justice, real action and lasting change.

Marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration on women’s rights, global leaders warn gender equality progress is too slow.

It has now been four years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. UN Women says women are being erased in a human rights crisis.

Women activists have launched Iraq’s first women’s political party ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections in November. 

Failure to grapple with women’s rights in Syria risks plunging the nation further into extremist violence.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women in Afghanistan since 2021. 

South Koreans will be heading to the polls to elect a new president. For the women of the country however, things are not looking good

Saudi Arabia paints itself as a “progressive” country, but reportedly fails to protect women and girls from gender-based violence.

If we don’t organise the feminist movement, we risk wasting the best opportunity we’ve had in years, writes Chloe Watts.

If we are serious about ending violence against women, we must demand an end to the prison system that disappears and brutalises them.

This year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York is being chaired by Saudi Arabia. How did this happen?