women’s rights

Plenary Council of Australia have passed a motion to revise a version of the section on the equal dignity of women in the Catholic Church.

In the USA, women’s bodies are now more regulated than guns thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court that has ended the constitutional right to abortion.

The Taliban issued an order last week, mandating that every female face be obscured. Every station has since must complied.

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet revealed its new “Women’s Network” logo, and then the controversial emblem was taken down. 

A job advertisement in Saudi Arabia offering 30 roles for female train drivers received 28,000 applicants.

The seizure of the women’s ministry is the latest sign that the Taliban is clamping down on women’s rights, one month after its takeover of Kabul.

Journalist Behesta Arghand who interviewed a Taliban spokesperson on television days after the fall of Kabul, has since fled Afghanistan.

The Religious Discrimination Bill would allow so-called “statements of belief” to override all workplace codes of conduct.

Annabel Crabb hosts a four-part tv series looking at the trajectory of women in politics since women started campaigning for their rights.

In an interview on A Current Affair last week, the Prime Minister said the word ‘respect’ 14 times and didn’t mention ‘equality’ once.

Why we march: tens of thousands of women take over Sydney’s CBD to march for women’s rights and address violence against women

Hathloul, a leading campaigner for women’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in May 2018 in a crackdown on dissent.