Women’s rights

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters flash victory signs, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria’s Kurds call for a democratic state that protects their ethnic rights

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria are calling for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad.

The entrance of the Supreme Court in London, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Transgender women in Britain fear ruling could place toilets, sports and hospitals off limits

Marion Calder, center, and Susan Smith, left, from For Women Scotland, celebrate outside after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between the feminist group and the Scottish government, in London Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

How did the UK Supreme Court define a woman and what happens now?

Marion Calder, right, and Susan Smith, left, from For Women Scotland, celebrate outside after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between the feminist group and the Scottish government, in London Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people

An operating room technician performs an ultrasound on a patient at an abortion clinic in Shreveport, La., July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Jackson, File)

States advance fetal rights measures that critics warn will pave a path for outlawing abortions

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Thousands gather in London to support trans rights following ruling over definition of woman

Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London on Saturday, days after the U.K.'s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition. (AP Video by Kwiyeon Ha)

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Zee Borger from Israel, a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, speaks to journalists in the event hall at the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps., Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Bodo Schackow/dpa via AP)

Former German president warns of far right at 80th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

Zainab Sakoteh sits in the Kingtom landfill in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, March 13, 2025, a place she frequents to meet the cartel that provide her with Kush. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

Sierra Leone declared an emergency over a powerful synthetic drug but women were left behind

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

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

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

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