women’s rights

Daqahliya authorities have arrested 17 people over their involvement in an incident of mass sexual harassment in Egypt, after a…

HINDU NAGAR, India (Reuters) — When the young woman limped toward shopkeeper Ravindra Prakash, pleading for help on a dark…

More than a thousand women have taken the feminist anthem “A Rapist In Your Way” into the streets of Chile’s…

Finland granted Egyptian-Finnish women’s rights activist Soraya Bahgat the “Hän Honor” Special Recognition Award for her devoted efforts to promoting gender…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A female tattoo artist, a rarity in Afghanistan, is taking a big risk with every customer…

MAZAIKEWALE, Pakistan (AP) — Sold by her family as a bride to a Chinese man, Samiya David spent only two…

Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity opened on Tuesday a new center hosting and mentoring battered women in Giza. The center…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to use separate entrances from men or…

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…