In the first case of its kind in Africa, a suit has been filed against Kenyan police for systemic discrimination in...

There are more than one million prostituted girls in India. "Only when the buyers of sex are arrested will the...

Comedy and social media are targeting Britain's Page 3 culture. With Lord Leveson's inquiry lashing the tabloid...

A Gallup poll finding that women in Rwanda and Bangladesh felt safer on the streets than women in the UK and Sweden...

Working with ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army, and the girls they have taken as wives, has convinced Nobel...

A lenient gang-rape verdict has prompted outcry and a debate on France's inadequate response to rape. The French...

Is the 21st century woman someone who doesn't have to choose between a career and kids, but is doomed to spend hours...

Spain's conservative right is taking the opportunity whilst in power at a time of economic crisis to revive its...

The publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the backlash it evoked, reveal an uneasy and...

Pregnant women are being held in immigration detention by the British government, violating statutory legislation,...

Recent events in Britain, America and Australia have revealed a fear of the word ‘vagina’ in public discourse, in...

Government attempts to reduce the excruciatingly high maternal mortality and stillbirth rates in Chad are failing....

Les efforts déployés par le gouvernement pour réduire les taux catastrophiquement élevés de mortalité maternelle et...

Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...

لأول مرة في تاريخ مصر, ترتدي سيدتها الأولى الحجاب و كما أثار زوجها قلق الكثيرون حول مدنية الدولة, أثارت زوجته القلق...

There is no shortage of documentation regarding the struggle of women living with HIV to access basic care, support,...

حوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات في مجال حقوق النساء...

Young women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual...

A year after the UN adopted a declaration in which member states committed to creating “enabling legal, social and...

For the last month, #SudanRevolt has gripped Sudan. Last Friday, the protests brought the central role of women in...