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[ad_1] TOPEKA, Kan. — The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature gave final approval Thursday to a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports, and they appear...
[ad_1] SAO PAULO — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced measures Wednesday seeking to promote and protect women after years of setbacks in their...
[ad_1] Women in Turkey have braved an official ban on an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, demonstrating for about two hours before police used tear...
[ad_1] The administration of United States President Joe Biden has spoken out in support of a recently filed lawsuit against Texas’s abortion ban, led by five...
[ad_1] Almost 200 human rights organizations are urging the United Nations to intervene to ensure the United States protects reproductive rights, saying the decision to overturn...
[ad_1] BERLIN — Germany’s foreign and development ministers on Wednesday presented new feminist foreign policy guidelines that are supposed to ensure that all people “have the...
[ad_1] From: UpFront ‘Everybody is trying to grasp something that gives them hope, and that hope is getting eliminated on a daily basis.’ When the Taliban...
[ad_1] OLYMPIA, Wash. — Abortion rights proposals have been front and center in Olympia, Washington, this week as state lawmakers heard hours of public testimony on...
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Edyth “Edie” Landau, the Oscar-nominated producer and executive vice president of National Telefilm Associates, has died at 95. The longtime entertainment producer...
[ad_1] KABUL, Afghanistan — The minister of higher education in the Taliban government on Thursday defended his decision to ban women from universities — a decree...
[ad_1] KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities,...
[ad_1] KABUL, Afghanistan — Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said...
[ad_1] When Kyrsten Sinema campaigned for the Senate as “an independent voice for Arizona,” her volunteers didn’t take that literally. Perhaps they heard what they wanted...
[ad_1] Pioneering Black-American feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a community activist who toured the United States speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and who appears with...
[ad_1] Poor implementation of the law passed five years ago leaves women at risk of violence, the Human Rights Watch says in a report. Authorities in...
[ad_1] Afghan high school girls have not returned to their schools since the Taliban returned to power last August. Afghanistan’s new rulers initially promised women’s rights...
[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday accusing the Taliban of violating the human rights of Afghan women and girls, failing...
[ad_1] ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis called female genital mutilation a “crime” on Sunday and said the fight for women’s rights, equality and opportunity...
[ad_1] NEW YORK — Five years after a pair of exposés revealed Harvey Weinstein’s long trail of sexual abuse of women, “She Said,” a film that...
[ad_1] SYDNEY — Players at this year’s World Cup had a few concerns about the competition, including the compact schedule and the timing of the tournament,...