women’s rights

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,

After initially excluding a number of women’s organisations that routinely attend the federal budget lock up Treasury relented & offered women two seats.

How to fight for women and girls without burning out is a critical issue. Women Deliver CEO Katja Iversen says being strategic and deliberate is the key.

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.

2016 was the year that everyday Australian women wielded real power online.

By now, you would have read or seen or heard the news.

Senator Wendy Davis has hit back at Texas governor Rick Perry for “bullying women” to further his own agenda, as Texas lawmakers return for a second special session to debate anti-abortion legislation this week.

Democratic Senator Wendy Davis showed the true meaning of endurance on the Texan senate floor when she launched a 13 hour filibuster against a proposed anti-abortion bill (SB5) to stop it from landing on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s desk.