Women’s rights

Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has found El Salvador’s government responsible for violating the rights of a young Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion of her anencephalic fetus in a country with a total abortion ban.

Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine wore an Aboriginal scarf

Here’s what to know about the US push for stability in post-Assad Syria

Biden says healthy women help US prosperity as he highlights White House initiative on their health

Ontario premier says US energy exports will be cut off if Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada

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Organisation in Australia ‘honoured’ as Pelicot wears scarf in court with artwork by Martu woman

As she walked into the courtroom on Thursday to hear the verdicts in a historic drugging-and-rape trial, Gisèle Pelicot wore a special brightly coloured scarf around her neck. The scarf had been handmade and sent to her by a women’s rights group in Australia, in a show of support and solidarity with Pelicot.

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Democrat Ruben Gallego elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator

Iranian American rights activist expresses defiance over alleged Iranian plots to kill her and Trump

The Berlin Wall: divide that set German women apart still echoes

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US says it will support new Syrian leaders who protect women and renounce terrorism

The end of an Eras tour approaches, marking a bittersweet moment for Taylor Swift fans

Emboldened ‘manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election

UK Supreme Court hears landmark legal challenge over how a ‘woman’ is defined in law

Thousands protest against femicides and sexual and sexist violence in France

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy

Swiss esports event canceled after 3 squads pull out over host team founder’s anti-abortion comment

Missouri officers accused of pulling over women, searching phones for nude pictures

A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky’s near-total ban

Iranian American human rights activist expresses defiance over Iranian plots to kill her and Trump

The Berlin Wall: A divide that once shaped German women’s lives still echoes today

Kamala Harris says Trump’s comment on women ‘is offensive to everybody’

War affects over 600 million women and girls, UN says

Activists challenge colonial-era abortion laws in Antigua and Barbuda

Becky Sauerbrunn and over 100 women’s soccer players protest FIFA deal with Saudi oil giant Aramco

As women seek open congressional seats in Maryland, reproductive rights are front and center

Judge strikes down Georgia ban on abortions, allowing them to resume beyond 6 weeks into pregnancy

A museum in Australia can bar men from the ‘Ladies Lounge’ exhibition, a regional top court says

Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad

Hillary Clinton takes stock of life’s wins and losses in a memoir inspired by a Joni Mitchell lyric

Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being set on fire by her partner

Women in Chad defy discrimination and violence to assert their rights to own and control land

Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women’s voices and bare faces in public

Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy

US border agent accused of ordering women to show him their breasts

Ahead of Olympic women’s boxing title bouts, IOC president again defends Imane Khelif and Li Yu-ting

Refugee athlete’s dream of a taekwondo medal is cut short at Paris Olympics

Gambia may have upheld its ban on female cutting, but the fight goes on away from parliament

For Paris Olympics organizers, female designation in passport key for boxers after world champs DQs

A city’s fine for a profane yard sign about Biden and Trump was unconstitutional, judge rules