On Tuesday, A Warsaw court convicted a women's rights activist for helping a victim of domestic violence access abortion pills in Poland and sentenced her to eight months of community service.
Congress won the November 12 assembly election, winning 40 assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh. But not even a single woman MLA was elected. This is the first time since 1967 that there is no cabinet representation for women.
The highest-ranking woman in the United Nations arrived in Kabul on Tuesday at the head of a delegation promoting the rights of women and girls
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres pointed to Afghanistan where 'women and girls have been erased from public life' and said women's sexual and reproductive rights are being rolled back in many countries.
Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation after hundreds of students at about 30 girls' schools across cities winded up in hospital beds with symptoms of poisoning.
While the number of homeless women in Delhi is in the thousands, there are just 19-night shelters for women in Delhi and the majority of the existing centers fail to provide more than the bare minimum.
In his address to the nation on India's 75th birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi beckoned citizens to fight misogyny and called for a 'change in the mentality' towards women. But women in India continue to suffer, be it...
The Taliban's order says that any non-governmental organization found not complying with the ban will have their operating license revoked in Afghanistan.
The developments came after Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities effective immediately. Afghan women have...
Workshop on development reporting calls upon experts to simplify their communication and journalists to find creative ways for reporting on population and...
Contrary to women’s assertion of their right to hold on to the veil in India, recent uprisings in the Islamic Republic of Iran present a distinct narrative....
At least 11 people have been killed since protests began earlier this month after the funeral of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody after being...
Thousands have taken to streets across Iran to protest against the death of a woman over Iran's hijab rules. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women in public...
With the unprecedented number of elevations of women to the Supreme Court of late, the ratio is better than ever before. Nonetheless, a lot needs to be done.
The latest Outlook edition titled Women-in-law takes stock of significant rulings and legislations in recent times that specifically deal with women’s rights...
Not all marriages are forced. Some women choose to get married, say to get out of abusive paternal homes or financial stress. Making marriage a punitive matter...
Despite there being a multitude of alimony and maintenance laws, women are left empty-handed and struggle to make ends meet after a bad marriage, as experts...
Progressive verdicts by courts help the cause of gender justice. But a lot remains to be done. Despite laws like protection of women from domestic violence...
After much strife, the 2018 Supreme Court judgment decriminalised Section 497 of the IPC that criminalised adultery and treated a woman as nothing more than...
There are quite a few landmark judgments which, while not resulting in the expected social transformation, have made a beginning simply by acknowledging the...
Jyoti, who became the first woman to graduate from Garhi Khajur village in Haryana’s Karnal district, is now a community leader
Jaipur-based Nishant Hussain started National Muslim Women Welfare Society to provide survivors of domestic violence, dowry a safe space, and to women caught...
It said that especially in cases where the police fail to address the grievance of such sexual complainants, the Courts have an important responsibility and...
Women in India, both married and unmarried, can abort pregnancies after 12 weeks and within 20 weeks. From 20-24 weeks, in case of abortion, the opinion of two...
Despite the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 2021 allowing all women in India to abort a foetus up to 20 weeks of pregnancy and 24 weeks for women under...
