Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The killing of prominent Iraqi women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed has fuelled an outpouring of grief and calls for justice, ...

Donald Trump’s first administration as US president attacked women’s rights across a broad range of issues, including undermining access to birth control, eroding efforts to end the pay gap between ...

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 08: Demonstrators hold a rally and march to voice support of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision by the U.S.Supreme Court that legalized abortion without excessive ...

Afghan lawyer Benafsha Yaqoobi has been chosen as one of the winners of the U.S. State Department's 2024 International Women of Courage Award. Yaqoobi, who is visually impaired, has advocated for ...

A majority of people in Afghanistan support human rights for Afghan women, and men are especially likely to support women's rights when primed to think about their eldest daughters, according to a ...

Where is one of worst places to be a woman? Afghanistan. That’s what most people think when it comes to the topic of the women’s rights crisis under the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. But this only ...

Autocracies now outnumber democracies, and nearly three-quarters of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule. Over the past decade, dictators in China and Russia consolidated their ...

A single conversation with a close family member may not change a young woman's views on policies protecting their rights, but it can strongly influence young men's attitudes. A University of Michigan ...

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Melissa Fleming is the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications as of 1 September 2019. Having grown up in war-torn rural Zimbabwe, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda overcame extreme ...