women’s rights

Organizers of January's Women's March have called for women to take the day off and encouraged them not to spend…

Austrian government officials are criticizing a recommendation by the country's Islamic leaders that Muslim women and girls wear a headscarf…

Sunni Arab Muslim women and girls suffered arbitrary detentions, beatings, sexual abuse and forced marriage under Islamic State rule, the…

As Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah Al-sisi announced that 2017 is the “women’s year", al-Azhar will issue a document detailing women's rights…

In another baby step toward more independence for women, Saudi Arabia wants to open women-only gyms in every neighborhood.

When 13-year-old Malika from a dusty village outside Cairo, Egypt turned 11, her mother took her to the doctor late…

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would not be afraid to tell Donald Trump when she finds…

In a global exclamation of defiance and solidarity, more than 1 million people rallied at women's marches in the nation's…

Women and girls in Egypt are subject to widespread abuse and discrimination, despite overall improvements in their rights and conditions,…

Women's rights activist Mozn Hassan was recently presented with the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as "alternative Nobel Prize", along with…