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A woman with the words "Free Azov" written on her face attends a rally aiming to raise awareness on the fate of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Captured Ukrainians convicted on terrorism charges by Russia in what Kyiv called a sham trial

Russia has convicted 23 captured Ukrainians on terrorism charges stemming from the war in Ukraine in a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law.
 
Mariama Soriba undergoes a procedure for a contraceptive implant at the Marie Stopes Sierra Leone Reproductive Choices clinic in Njagbahun, Sierra Leone, Saturday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

Sierra Leone debates decriminalizing abortion as women and girls endanger their lives

 
Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz, File)

Confronting backlash against women’s rights, 193 nations commit to speed action on gender equality

 
Women chant slogans during a protest marking International Women's Day in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

International Women’s Day protests demand equal rights and an end to discrimination, sexual violence

 
A woman holds up a photo of Giulia Cecchettin, the 22-year-old university student stabbed to death by her former boyfriend, on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Milan, Italy, Nov. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Italy approves draft law targeting femicide with punishment of up to life in prison

 

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Taliban insist Afghan women’s rights are protected as UN says their bans cannot be ignored

 
Women take selfie photos while they participate in the flash mob "Beautiful secular outing" by wearing hats to a performance at the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella celebrating upcoming International Women's Day, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

 
Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz, File)

Women’s rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says

 
A vendor pulls through a crowd of revelers a cart carrying a cooler of ice cold beverages at the Heaven on Earth pre-Carnival street party, in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Street vendors dispense the party fuel for Rio’s Carnival, but face pushback as their numbers grow

 

US porn actor visits Afghanistan in a trip unacknowledged by the Taliban

 
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers the 2025 State of the State address Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich. (Katy Kildee/Detroit News via AP)

Michigan Democratic Gov. Whitmer makes direct appeal to young men after sharp shift in election

 
Soccer player Jenni Hermoso leaves after testifying at a court on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Monday Feb. 3, 2025 during the trial of former president of Spain's soccer federation Luis Rubiales for his unsolicited kiss on her. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Hermoso says guilty verdict for Rubiales kiss sets ‘important precedent’

 
Zoe Staires protests against the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)/Tulsa World via AP)

Once off the table, bills to charge women who get abortions with murder get votes before failing

 
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Fourth federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order

 

Polish appeals court orders retrial in abortion-aiding case

 
This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Iraq’s top court throws out challenge to new laws, including one increasing Islamic courts authority

 
In this frame grab from Saudi state television footage, doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2014. (Saudi state television via AP, File)

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

 
The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Frozen USAID funding strands groups that support marginalized people in the Western Balkans

 
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown departs a press availability after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship in a case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Justice Department appeals as second judge in 2 days blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order

 
A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

USAID is going away. Here’s what it’s been doing in South America

 
This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Iraq’s top court suspends new legislation that activists say undermines women’s rights

 
People gather in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, to protest President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, during which he criticized “sick wokeism,” social welfare, feminism, identity politics and the fight against climate change. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentines protest President Milei’s diatribe against ‘wokeism’ at Davos

 

Polish appeals court to rule next month in abortion case which activists say could set a precedent

 

Japan to halt funding for a UN women’s rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession

 
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Afghan Taliban leaders over persecution of women

 
V (formerly Eve Ensler) appears onstage to celebrate V's memoir "Reckoning" on Feb. 1, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Climate change concert event ‘Dear Everything’ hopes to inspire unity

 
Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraqi lawmakers pass a bill that critics say legalizes child marriage

 
England's captain Jos Buttler fields a ball during their practice session ahead of their first Twenty20 cricket match against India, in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

England captain says cricket match against Afghanistan should go ahead despite boycott calls

 
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, addresses an audience during an event in Hooksett, N.H. Jan. 10, 2016, during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Former Planned Parenthood president, women’s rights activist Cecile Richards has died at 67

 
People march toward the Lincoln Memorial during the People's March, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Thousands march in Washington days before Trump takes office

 
Members of the group NC Forward listen during a meeting in High Point, N.C., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. The group is traveling to Washington to take part in the People's March on Jan. 18 ahead of the inauguration. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

A rebranded Women’s March returns before Trump’s inauguration as progressives seek to regroup

 
Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown on Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from campaigns to race and women’s rights

 
Taliban fighters stand guard in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women

 
Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he returns to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., to teach Sunday school, June 9, 2019, less than a month after falling and breaking his hip. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Jimmy Carter: Many evolutions for a centenarian ‘citizen of the world’

 
Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, foreground, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan minister of state for communication and political affairs, in Damascus, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspends services as Lebanon hands over former Syrian army officers

 
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