Over the years, India has seen several women leaders in its politics. However, in a nation with a population of…
The Supreme Court of India is poised to deliver a landmark judgement that may make it a crime for a…
Large-scale protests that erupted in 2022 across Iran, centering on women’s rights, captured the world’s attention. Iranians peacefully protested in…
One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly,…
A recent rise in activism in Iran has added a new chapter to the country’s long-standing history of murals and…
After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the…
More and more women are taking up combat roles on the front line, playing a key role over a year…
Fatima (not her real name) is a university student in Bangladesh. She had just finished her classes when she received…
In normal course, when you hear of someone being poisoned, it is usually to do with political assassinations or vendetta…
(Source: PTI) The UN has apologised for "a significant lapse in judgement" after photographs surfaced of some of its personnel…
After debarring Afghan women from parks and gyms, the Taliban has now imposed a ban on them attending universities and…
The recent announcement that women and girls in Afghanistan have been banned by the Taliban government from visiting parks and…
(Source: PTI) One of the fundamental questions relating to the 2022 World Cup being hosted by Qatar is what message…
As counting was conducted in the US midterm elections, it’s clear women’s rights activism is reaching more people than ever…
In the past few days, two news reports caught my attention. One of them said that women in Afghanistan have…
(Source: PTI) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday termed violence against women a “big cancer” and called for…
Iranians took to the streets for a tenth consecutive night on Sunday, in defiance of a warning from the judiciary,…
Women rights activists on Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the actual implementation of schemes for women on the…
Monesa Mubarez is not going to give up the rights she and other Afghan women won during 20 years of…
The word “anniversary” usually brings about happy and memorable moments. But Aug. 15 marks one year since the Taliban takeover…
Hundreds of people have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban overran the country nearly a year ago, even though…
The US Supreme Court's historic end to nationwide abortion rights on Friday drew unusual criticism from some of America's closest…
An LLM student in Odisha‘s Sambalpur town has launched an online campaign demanding paid leave for women employed in both…
Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has expressed fear for women and girls in Afghanistan after the Taliban issued a decree…
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public -- a sharp, hard-line pivot…
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