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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

England captain Jos Buttler believes their Champions Trophy cricket match against Afghanistan next month should go ahead despite calls for a boycott.
 
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

 

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An Indigenous model wears a creation from Indigenous designers during a fashion event, as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women, to claim women's rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazilian Indigenous women use fashion to showcase their claim to rights and the demarcation of land

 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, bottom row, poses with his new cabinet members in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, after a cabinet reshuffle. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan’s Kishida shuffles Cabinet and party posts to solidify power

 
FILE - Dan Spohn is shown before a mixed martial arts bout at PFL 3, Thursday, June 6, 2019, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. Saudi Arabia's most recent venture into the global sports scene — purchasing a stake in the Professional Fighters League — is yet another example of the oil-rich kingdom using athletics to increase its influence. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan, File)

Mixed martial arts investment latest example of Saudi Arabia’s foray into global sports

 
A woman holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish; "I will decide" as she joins a march demanding legal, free and safe abortions for all women, marking International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2022. Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, has decriminalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Latin America women’s rights groups say their abortion win in Mexico may hold the key to US struggle

 
A woman holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish; "I will decide" as she joins a march demanding legal, free and safe abortions for all women, marking International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2022. Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, has decriminalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

 
Thanaporn Saleephol arrives at Southern Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Three human rights activists including Thanaporn were acquitted Tuesday of criminally defaming a Thai poultry company with social media posts that supported activists who accused the company of abusive labor practices, according to three defendants and their lawyer. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

3 activists are acquitted of defaming a Thai poultry company accused of violating labor laws

 
FILE - Two people walk on the University of Wyoming campus, June 14, 2016, in Laramie, Wyo. On Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, a judge dismissed a lawsuit contesting a transgender woman's admission into a sorority at the University of Wyoming, ruling that he could not override how the private, voluntary organization defined a woman and order that she not belong. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Boomerang via AP, File)

Judge dismisses lawsuit by sorority sisters who sought to block a transgender woman from joining

 
FILE - Tunisia's Ons Jabeur returns to Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in a women's singles match on day ten of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Jabeur is one of the women to watch at the U.S. Open, which begins at Flushing Meadows on Aug. 28. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Women’s tennis players have mixed feelings about possibly staging the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia

 
FILE - Adrienne Daily, center, and her daughter, Kierson Daily, raise their fists in protests during a rally against the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Pittsburgh. Democrats in Pennsylvania will try to resurrect the voter energy behind protecting abortion rights that helped them win critical openings for governor and U.S. Senate in 2022 as they try to now protect their state Supreme Court majority in the presidential battleground. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, File)

Democrats in Pennsylvania want to keep a Supreme Court majority. They are talking up abortion rights

 
FILE - Li Li Leung, president of USA Gymnastics, speaks during the U.S. gymnastics championships Aug. 18, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. Leung announced Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, that the organization is looking to build a centralized training and wellness center that would allow each of its national teams across various disciplines to train in the same place. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

USA Gymnastics wants to build a centralized training center for all disciplines by the 2028 Olympics

 
FILE - Women chant slogans protesting violence against women and demanding the release of all detainees before the U.N. rights office in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 2, 2022. Sudan's powerful paramilitary has been singled out by a leading rights group and 30 United Nations experts with accusations of rape and sexual violence against women in separate statements, as the country enters its fourth month of conflict. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Thursday, AUg. 17, 2023, the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary apparently targeted women and girls in the western Darfur region of non-Arab ethnicity as well as activists recording human rights abuses during its fighting with the country's armed forces. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Rights group and UN experts single out Sudanese paramilitary with accusations of sexual violence

 
FILE - Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, holds a news conference at U.N. headquarters, on Sept. 16, 2016. Brown told a virtual U.N. press conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, that its rulers are responsible for “the most egregious, vicious and indefensible violation of women’s rights and girls’ rights in the world today.” (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

UN envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying girls education

 
Children hold Taliban flags during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

The Taliban believe their rule is open-ended and don’t plan to lift the ban on female education

 
Members of the Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy practice before the Parliament of World Religion Parade of Faiths, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

A throng of interfaith leaders to focus on combating authoritarianism at global gathering in Chicago

 
Afghan refugees hold an indoor rally to demand their U.S. visa to be processed in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, July 21, 2023. When the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021, it carried tens of thousands of Afghans to safety. But two years later, many others are still waiting to be resettled. Those are Afghans who helped the war effort by working with the U.S. government and military or Afghan journalists and aid workers whose former work puts them at risk under the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Two years after fall of Kabul, tens of thousands of Afghans languish in limbo waiting for US visas

 
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt becomes the first governor to sign the Women's Bill of Rights (WBOR) Executive Order during a press conference at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The executive order fortifies into law sex-based words like 'female,' 'woman,' and 'mother' and protecting women-only spaces. (Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman via AP)

Transgender rights targeted in executive order signed by Oklahoma governor

 
Chautauqua Institution President Michael Hill poses for a photo in his office the overlooks Bestor Plaza, in Chautauqua, N.Y., Thursday, June 29, 2023. For a single, unthinkable moment last summer, the Chautauqua Institution was a hostile place for the freedom of expression that's been its hallmark for 150 years: As Salman Rushdie was about to speak, an audience member leapt onto the stage and stabbed the celebrated author more than a dozen times. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

After an attack on Salman Rushdie, the Chautauqua Institution says its mission won’t change

 

Ex-Oregon prison nurse convicted of sexually assaulting 9 women in custody

 
A lock is seen on a beauty salon door after Taliban announced bans beauty salons in Afghanistan, is seen in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The Taliban announced Tuesday that all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now close as a one-month deadline ended, despite rare public opposition to the edict. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Khan)

Taliban orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close despite UN concern and rare public protest

 

Michigan Supreme Court expands parental rights in former same-sex relationships

 
Linda Masarira, a presidential candidate speaks to the press outside the High Court in Harare, Zimbabwe, Wednesday, June, 23 2023. Masarira had her candidacy rejected because she failed to pay the $20,000 registration fee on time. In Zimbabwe, the low number of women standing as candidates in general elections scheduled for Aug. 23 is viewed as perpetuating decades-old domination of politics by men. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwean women are reduced to cheerleaders in the upcoming election, activists say

 
FILE - A woman walks past beauty salons with window decorations which have been defaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry said Tuesday, July 4, 2023, the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Taliban use stun guns, fire hoses and gunfire to break up Afghan women protesting beauty salon ban

 
FILE - A tennis player casts a shadow on the clay court of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, June 2, 2019. Tennis appears set to follow the path of golf and other sports by doing business with Saudi Arabia and its $650 billion sovereign wealth fund. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Saudi money could be headed to tennis next. Is it about sportswashing, women’s rights or both?

 
This is a locator map for Saudi Arabia with its capital, Riyadh. (AP Photo)

UN report calls on Saudi Arabia to release 2 women jailed over tweets, alleging rights abuses

 
FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017, photo, former President Jimmy Carter, right, and his wife Rosalynn arrive for a ribbon cutting ceremony for a solar panel project on farmland he owns in their hometown of Plains, Ga. Jimmy and Rosalynn are celebrating their 77th wedding anniversary, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter mark 77th wedding anniversary at home in Plains, Georgia

 
FILE - A woman enters a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry said Tuesday, July 4, 2023, the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

The Afghan Taliban say they banned beauty salons because they offered forbidden services

 
FILE- Beauticians put makeup on customers at Ms. Sadat's Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2021. A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry said Tuesday, July 4, 2023, the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

The Taliban are outlawing women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan

 

Peg Yorkin, feminist leader and philanthropist, dies at 96

 
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 28, 2023. The supreme leader of the Taliban released a message Sunday, June 25, claiming that his government has taken the necessary steps for the betterment of women's lives in Afghanistan, where women are banned from public life and work and girls' education is severely curtailed.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban leader claims women are provided with a ‘comfortable and prosperous life’ in Afghanistan

 
A woman shows a selection of sex toys she sells to women in Zimbabwe, on Friday, June, 23, 2023. Zimbabwean woman Sitabile Dewa is challenging a sex toys ban in the country which she describes in court papers filed in March as "archaic" and "repressive" laws used to arrest women for having sex toys. Her court challenge - a bold act in a society where females are usually shamed for being openly sexual - highlights the struggles endured by Zimbabwean women battling to attain sexual freedom. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

A law that bans sex toys as obscene and morally harmful is being challenged by women in Zimbabwe

 
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