women’s rights

Within months of Sudan’s first women’s football league kicking off, the championship’s emerging stars are being hailed as icons for…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American activist famous for her campaign against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarf, or…

BEIRUT (AP) — Nadyn Jouny’s sister taped up two messages in her memory inside a closet at the family home…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s transitional government announced on Friday that it has overturned a moral policing law and moved to…

A Yemeni man stabbed three performers during a live play in the Saudi capital Monday, police said, in the first…

Women’s groups and legal experts demanded Friday that Spain’s laws be changed after five men accused of gang-raping an unconscious…

CAIRO (Reuters) – The 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a…

Two major retailers in Australia have removed a book on Harvey Weinstein from sale, after legal threats from a man…

Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened…

FIFA Women’s World Cup’s official Instagram featured on its account “Empower”, the Egyptian football academy for women founded by 26-year-old…