women’s rights

Lockdowns are leaving domestic violence victims worldwide trapped with abusers.

The United States has joined with a group of authoritarian countries in opposing not just abortion, but also basic medical vocabulary that applies to women.

How Swat Valley went from basket case to on the mend.

The country has some of the worst rates of sexual violence in Asia—and old attitudes are proving hard to change.

Party mergers and other systemic problems have buried the country’s once-vaunted female political leadership.

Ahead of elections, politicians on both sides are acknowledging the need to empower women.

In the Balkan wars, women were targets. In postwar governments, they’ve been pushed out of sight.

U.S. diplomats team up with a “rogues’ gallery” of conservative states to roll back global reproductive health gains of the past quarter-century.

When the United States takes the helm of the group next year, it will have an opportunity to do even better.

Sex-selective abortion fuels a cycle of patriarchy and abuse.

The youth vote is becoming increasingly important in Argentina, but the leading presidential candidates are deliberately avoiding the issue that matters most to them.

From Princess Haya to Sheikha Latifa, our top reads on why the Gulf’s rich and famous want out.

Theresa May sought to burnish her legacy by introducing landmark legislation on domestic abuse before she stepped down. But like her hostile environment immigration policy, it leaves women without papers with nowhere to turn.

The relationship among birthrates, gender norms, and work culture is more complicated than you think.

From a trade war with China to women’s rights around the world, here’s what has captured our readers’ attention in the first half of the year.

Since 2016, the campaign to leave the European Union has been led primarily by men. The remaining candidates for prime minister are all male—and they're not talking about the grave consequences of Brexit for women.

The administration’s hard-line anti-abortion stance is undermining women’s rights and U.S. development aid around the world, critics say.

On the podcast: A look back at the vote in Ireland that ended the abortion ban.

France is the latest country to pledge allegiance to a gendered international focus. Will it work?

The latest refugees from the kingdom fled to Tbilisi, Georgia, and spoke to Foreign Policy before seeking asylum in the West.