women’s rights

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.

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.