women’s rights

Across much of the world—including one remote Nigerian village—the availability of family planning will largely depend on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

Twenty-five years on from the Beijing Platform, the world has made important advances in gender equity. The next step is to ensure that women claim their rights not just in theory but also in practice.

After months of delay, Boris Johnson’s government has rejected amendments to the landmark legislation that would ensure support for some of the country’s most marginalized women.

Younger Afghans are on a mission to change how their country talks about life, death, and freedom.

In India, education under lockdown and a deep digital divide threaten to undo real progress in rural areas.

In congressional hearings this week, it just needs to figure out how to better implement the legislation.

Conservatives have framed women’s rights rallies in March as a source of contagion, threatening to undermine the surging feminist movement.

What’s different this time, villagers say, is many of the fighters’ own sisters and daughters are attending.

Abortions were already difficult to obtain and then came the coronavirus.

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.