It was, after all, Labour who codified them in the Equality Act 2010 as one of its last swishes of the tail from the Blair-Brown years. Labour’s Mayor of London Ken Livingstone first sparked the idea ...

Morocco’s significant progress in ensuring women’s full and equal participation and representation in political and decision-making spheres was showcased by the Interministerial Delegation for Human ...

Indigenous women abused as teenagers by white ‘criollo’ men accuse state of neglect amid three-year fight for justice ...

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing on girls and women’s ...

Only 4% of official aid supports gender equality as its primary goal. Funding must be dramatically scaled up across public ...

ISTANBUL — Women took to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa, South America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence.

Women across the world will call for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations marking International Women's Day on Saturday.

From Athens to Madrid, Paris, Munich, Zurich and Belgrade and in many more cities across Europe, women marched to mark International Women’s Day.

In the new review, which includes contributions from 159 countries, UN Women said countries have taken many steps forward on gender equality and women's rights in the past five years but that such ...

Yet, women still have only 64% of the legal rights of men, the report said. Since 2022, cases of conflict-related sexual violence have risen by 50% with women and girls suffering 95% of these cases.

QAMISHLI, Syria, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and to ...