women’s rights

Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male “guardian”, the government said Thursday, ending a…

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, who helped shape his country’s democratic transition after a 2011 revolution ended…

The Saudi government is reportedly planning this year to lift a restriction on women traveling without the consent of male…

The members of the South Korean boy group Super Junior are megastars in their home country. They’ve released nine studio…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for a young Iranian woman…

Fatima Qandil is the first female judge to take up the judges panel in Egypt’s Criminal Court. The criminal court…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj said on Tuesday that she was pulling out of a planned concert…

GENEVA (Reuters) – Two South African sisters who were imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, initially without charge, described their ordeal on…

No country is on track to achieve the gender equality called for in the United Nations’s development blueprint, a report…

Abortion services can continue in Missouri for now, a court ruled Friday, granting a temporary restraining order to keep open…