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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’

Spain forward Jenni Hermoso says that the guilty verdict given to Luis Rubiales for his unsolicited kiss after the 2023 Women’s World Cup final sets an “important precedent” for society and women’s rights.

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

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

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Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee attends a quarterfinal handball match between Germany and France at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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

Palestine's Omar Yaser Ismail, left, competes with Refugees Olympic Team's Hadi Tiranvalipour in a men's 58kg Taekwondo match during the 2024 Summer Olympics, at the Grand Palais, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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

Metta, a survivor of female genital mutilation, poses for a photograph in the village of Sintet, in Gambia, Friday, July 26, 2024. When Metta, a mother of six from rural Gambia, heard that lawmakers were considering reversing the country's ban on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice she underwent as a child and now fiercely opposes, she was determined that her voice be heard. She packed her bag and boarded a bus to the capital, Banjul, to join scores of women protesting in front of the parliament in this largely Muslim nation of less than 3 million people in West Africa. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

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

FILE - Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting poses after winning against India's Parveen in the Boxing Women's 54-57Kg Semifinal bout during the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

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

President Joe Biden, right, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, participate in a presidential debate hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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

Only 17% of targets to improve life around the world are likely to be reached by 2030, UN reports

This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)

Women’s rights will be raised at the UN meeting being attended by Taliban, UN official says

FILE - Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva speaks to the media at a polling station during the presidential election in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,on Oct. 30, 2011. U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva was pummeled with questions Friday, June 21, 2024 from journalists about criticism from human rights organizations at the omission of Afghan women from the meeting in Qatar’s capital Doha on June 30 and July 1. (Sultan Dosaliev/Pool Photo via AP, File)

UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar

Visitors pose for photographs outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Supreme Court rules against California woman whose husband was denied entry to US

In this photo released by Free Huang Xueqin & Wang Jianbing, Chinese journalist Huang Xueqin holds up a #METOO sign for a photo in Singapore in Sept. 2017. Supporters say Friday, June 14, 2024 that Xueqin, the Chinese journalist who promoted women's rights as part of the country's nascent #MeToo movement has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of undermining state security. (Free Huang Xueqin & Wang Jianbing via AP)

Chinese journalist who promoted #MeToo movement sentenced to 5 years in prison

Artist Woodrow Nash, front row, fourth from left, Chairperson of the Sojourner Truth Project Akron Towanda Mullins, front row, fifth from right, Brent Leggs, Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund back row first from left, Jim Mullen president and CEO of United Way of Summit and Medina back row, second from left stand with others at the unveiling of the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza in Akron, Ohio on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her 1851 ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech

FILE - Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Melinda French Gates speaks at the forum Empowering Women as Entrepreneurs and Leaders during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, on April 13, 2023. French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Melinda French Gates to donate $1 billion over next 2 years in support of women’s rights

The Pink Orchid bakery and cafe and the Taste of Tehran restaurant are seen in the so-called "Tehrangeles" neighborhood in the Westwood district of Los Angeles on Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

From London to Los Angeles, many Iranians overseas cheer, and fear, after president’s death

People pray for President Ebrahim Raisi in a ceremony at Vali-e-Asr square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s hard-line president still missing after likely helicopter crash in foggy, mountainous region

Denmark to liberalize its abortion law to allow the procedure until 18th week of pregnancy

FILE - Ashley Judd speaks during an event on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, spoke out Monday, April 29, on the right of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ashley Judd speaks out on the right of women to control their bodies and be free from male violence

FILE - Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica, left, and his wife Lucia Topolansky enter La Moneda presidential palace for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the military coup that toppled the government of late President Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2023. Mujica announced on April 29, 2024, that he has esophageal cancer after a tumor was detected during a medical check-up. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Iconic former Uruguayan President José Mujica is diagnosed with esophageal cancer

This June 2017 photo provided by Aitbek Amangeldy shows a selfie taken by his sister, Saltanat Nukenova, in Astana, Kazakhstan. Her husband, former economics minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev, is standing trial in her November 2023 death – a case that has riveted the Central Asian country and boosted awareness of domestic violence. (Courtesy of Aitbek Amangeldy via AP)

A high-profile murder trial in Kazakhstan boosts awareness of domestic violence

This photo provided by Rubenstein shows Director Leigh Silverman talking with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a rehearsal for the off-Broadway musical “Suffs” in New York. Clinton and Shaina Taub are joining together as producers of the musical about the suffragist movement. (Jenny Anderson via AP)

Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai producing. An election coming. ‘Suffs’ has timing on its side

FILE - O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, arrive for the opening of the Harley-Davidson Cafe in New York on Oct. 19, 1993. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (AP Photo/Paul Hurschmann, File)

The O.J. Simpson case forced domestic violence into the spotlight, boosting a movement

Dariusz Matecki, top right, a conservative lawmaker in the Polish parliament, displays a poster showing a fetus and the words "10th week after conception," during a vote on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, April 12, 2024. Polish lawmakers voted Friday to continue work on four proposals that would loosen the law on abortion, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country which has a near-total ban. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting a near-total abortion ban

Russia puts more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown on dissent reaches new levels

Korbin Albert del Paris Saint-Germain tras marcar un gol ante BK Hacken en los cuartos de final de la Liga de Campeones femenina, el jueves 28 de marzo de 2024, en París. (AP Foto/Thibault Camus)

US women’s players association issues statement in support of LGBTQ rights

FILE - WTA CEO Steve Simon sits for an interview during the WTA Finals tennis tournament in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal announced Thursday, April 4, 2024, by the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million, a 70% increase from 2023. (AP Photo/Tim Heitman, File)

Saudi Arabia will host the women’s tennis WTA Finals for the next three years

Mariama Sonko Mariama Sonko poses in the seed hut of her agro-ecological training center in the Casamance village of Niaguis, Senegal, Wednesday, March 7, 2024. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, its president, is training female farmers from cultures where women are often excluded from ownership of the land they work so closely. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

‘Women farmers are invisible': A West African project helps them claim their rights — and land

A Pakistani court sentences a woman to life in prison for burning pages from Islam’s holy book

Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, pickets outside parliament in Serrekunda, Gambia, Monday, March 18, 2024. The West African nation of Gambia could become the first country in the world to reverse a ban on female genital cutting, a practice that experts say is dangerous and has no benefits. Lawmakers are voting Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal the 2015 ban. (Hadim Thomas-Safe Hands for Girls via AP)

Gambia lawmakers refer a repeal of the ban on female genital cutting to more committee discussions

Women carry the coffin during funeral ceremonies for Lizaveta Hertsen, a 25-year-old woman from Belarus who died after being attacked and raped on the streets of the Polish capital, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. The crime in a city regarded to be safe has caused shock among Poles and among Belarusians and Ukrainians who have sought refuge in Poland in recent years. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A young Belarusian woman who died after attack in Warsaw is laid to rest

FILE - A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Human Rights Watch said Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 that Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UN chief: Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women’s rights

Women play their drums as they march against gender-based violence marking International Women's Day, in Mexico City, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurea del Rosario)

Facing historic shifts, Latin American women bathe streets in purple on International Women’s Day