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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

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Argentina’s capital and in cities across the country to protest President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he slammed ‘wokeism,’ feminism and other progressive ideals.
 
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

 

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FILE - Escort volunteers line up outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center, on Monday, July 17, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Her attorneys didn't immediately comment on what effect the development would have on the lawsuit filed last week in a state court in Louisville. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan, File)

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Ali, second right, and Kiana Rahmani, second left, attend the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to their mother, imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, shown on the screen, in Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. The children of Narges Mohammadi will accept this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Mohammadi is renowned for campaigning for women’s rights and democracy in her country. (Fredrik Varfjell/NTB via AP)

Children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi accept the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

 
FILE - Abortion-rights supporters chant their objections at the Kentucky Capitol, April 13, 2022, in Frankfort, Ky. A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, challenging the state's sweeping abortion ban, saying the right to terminate a pregnancy is crucial for people to "control their lives.” The suit, filed in state court in Louisville, says Kentucky's near-total prohibition against abortion violates the plaintiff's rights to privacy and self-determination under the state constitution. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner, File)

Pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortion

 
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. Online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active women in Afghanistan has significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in Aug. 2021, according to a report released Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 by a U.K.-based rights group. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Online abuse of politically active Afghan women tripled after Taliban takeover, rights group reports

 
FILE - Former first lady Rosalynn Carter answers questions during a news conference at a Habitat for Humanity project, Oct. 7, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. She was 96. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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FILE - Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., speaks during an interview at her congressional offices in Washington, Feb. 8, 2023. Spanberger has announced she will run in 2024 for Virginia governor. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger is running for governor instead of seeking reelection to the House

 
FILE - Chrystul Kizer, right, and her attorney Larisa Benitez-Morgan sit together in the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 6, 2020. Using the video and transcript of Kizer's 2018 interview with Kenosha police investigators as trial evidence would likely violate the Milwaukee woman's constitutional rights, Kenosha Circuit Court Judge David Wilk ruled on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (Paul Williams/The Kenosha News via AP, File)

Video, transcripts of Wisconsin woman’s police interview cannot be used at her trial, judge rules

 

UN experts call on the Taliban to free 2 women rights defenders from custody in Afghanistan

 
FILE - Afghan fire fighters extinguish vehicles on fire after an attack at the main gate of International Hamed Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 10, 2015. At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows agreement on at least one issue: the United.States' two-decade long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Republicans and Democrats agree that the Afghanistan war wasn’t worth it, an AP-NORC poll shows

 

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Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is seen in a meeting on women's rights in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2008. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi for fighting oppression of women in Iran. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in Oslo. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women's rights and democracy and against the death penalty. (Reihane Taravati via AP)

Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with the West

 
This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women's rights and democracy and against the death penalty. (Reihane Taravati via AP)

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women’s oppression

 
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez applauds at the Spanish parliament's lower house in Madrid, Spain on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The leader of Spain's conservatives on Friday failed for the second time in three days to get parliamentary support for his bid to become prime minister following his party's victory in a national election. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spain’s king asks Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez to try to form a government

 
FILE - Laphonza Butler, President of EMILY's List, speaks during an event in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

California governor chooses labor leader and Democratic insider to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat

 
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez applauds at the Spanish parliament's lower house in Madrid, Spain on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The leader of Spain's conservatives on Friday failed for the second time in three days to get parliamentary support for his bid to become prime minister following his party's victory in a national election. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Lu Sirui looks up while reading the book "Misogyny" written by Chizuko Ueno, in a bookstore specialising in feminist literature in Beijing on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Like a growing number of Chinese women, Lu was inspired by this book in 2022 and became a feminist. From time to time, she would go back to Ueno's books to think about gender-based issues. in Beijing, (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

As China censors homegrown feminism, a feminist scholar from Japan is on its bestseller lists

 
A woman participates in an abortion-rights demonstration during the Day for Decriminalization of Abortion, in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexa Herrera)

Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights

 
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The mental health of Afghan women, who have suffered under harsh measures imposed by the Taliban since taking power two years ago, has deteriorated across the country, according to a joint report from three U.N. agencies released Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

As mental health worsens among Afghanistan’s women, the UN is asked to declare ‘gender apartheid’

 
FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards, Sept. 20, 2023, in New York. Kishida on Monday, Sept. 25, unveiled the gist of his new economic package that focuses on wage increases and measures to soften the impact of rising prices. Support for his Cabinet has dwindled despite the latest reshuffle less than two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, file)

Japan’s Kishida unveils the gist of a new economic package as support for his government dwindles

 
This image released by Opera Philadelphia shows Baritone Will Liverman as Dr. Josiah Blackwell, left, soprano Kiera Duffy as Nellie, center, and soprano Lauren Pearl as Nurse/Matron during a rehearsal of Rene Orth’s “10 Days in a Madhouse” at Opera Philadelphia. (Opera Philadelphia/Dominic M. Mercier)

`10 Days in a Madhouse’ opera premieres in Philadelphia, celebrating women’s voices

 
FILE - Abortion-rights activists protest outside of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The influential abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America announced Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, that it has changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All to better reflect how people think about abortion access ever since the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to abortion little more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Abortion-rights group rebrands to Reproductive Freedom for All in post-Roe world

 
Tennis legend Billie Jean King speaks during the opening ceremony of the of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Chelsea Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Chelsea Clinton hopes new donations and ideas can help women and girls face increasing challenges

 
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The mental health of Afghan women, who have suffered under harsh measures imposed by the Taliban since taking power two years ago, has deteriorated across the country, according to a joint report from three U.N. agencies released Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Mental health among Afghan women deteriorating across the country, UN report finds

 

A mayor in South Sudan was caught on video slapping a female street vendor. He has since been sacked

 
In this photo released by #FreeXueBing, Chinese journalist Huang Xueqin holds up a #METOO sign for a photo in Singapore in September 2017. A pretrial hearing was held Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, for the Chinese journalist active in the MeToo movement and the labor rights activist who had been detained with her, their supporters said. The hearing comes two years to the day after they disappeared into China's legal system. (#FreeXueBing via AP)

A Chinese #MeToo journalist and an activist spent 2 years in detention. Their trial starts this week

 
FILE - Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open since the last year's Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 11, 2022. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

2 years ago, the Taliban banned girls from school. It’s a worsening crisis for all Afghans

 
A trans woman waits to take a photo inside a mausoleum dedicated to trans women in Mexico City, Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023. A small altar with an image of trans woman Paola Buenrostro, who was murdered in 2016, can be seen in the background. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A mausoleum for transgender women is inaugurated in Mexico’s capital as killings continue

 
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