Ahead of International Women’s Day, UN Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres reflects on how empowering women can help minimize the impact of climate change.
Malta has become the first European country to ban gay conversion therapy, imposing fines of up to 10,000 euros ($10,750) and a jail term of up to one year for offenders.
Salons such as Tropical Popical, Nail Transphobia and WAH Nails are using their largely women-only spaces to raise awareness of issues such as domestic violence and to help young businesswomen in the trade
Women would be prohibited from wearing face-covering garments in places like schools and hospitals.
As Sunni tribesmen and the Iraqi army prepare for a battle to capture a village south of Mosul, Miaad al-Jibbouri, the only female member of the Lions of the Tigris, clutches an AK-47 assault rifle and vows to defeat Islamic State.
French women were urged to walk out of work at 16:37 local time to highlight the gender pay gap.
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Viola Desmond will be the first Canadian woman to grace the front of a banknote.
The Labour MP’s book includes the subjects most political memoirs leave out, and ends with a feminist manifesto
A few weeks ago, citizens from the oil-rich nation of Saudi Arabia started making an unexpected complaint via Twitter: raise our salaries, please!
That whispering you hear from American women right now, it's not elation, it's anxiety.
The vision: Microloans will let women start their own businesses. What do the studies show?
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The women were targeted by the gunman for being female engineering students.
The woman on the iconic 'We can do it!' posters from the 1940s encouraged women to join the WWII workforce - and they did. Here, see 46 real-life Rosie the Riveters who built bombers and transport planes.
In a new study, researchers are suggesting that around 25 million of China’s “missing girls” aren’t actually missing, but appear on government censuses at a later stage in their lives.
The Mediterranean Sea is called the world’s deadliest border because thousands of migrants and refugees drown on unseaworthy boats trying to reach Europe.
Tips on how to start a freelance writing business including the pros and cons, what freelancers get paid, and more.
A British tourist allegedly gang-raped in Dubai faces a prison sentence and needs £24,000 for legal fees after police accused her of having "extra-marital sex".
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The Riigikogu has elected Estonian representative to the European Court of Auditors Kersti Kaljulaid as the next President of the Republic of Estonia. Kaljulaid, who will also be Estonia's first woman president, is scheduled to be sworn into office on Monday, Oct. 10.
