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Download logoA quarter of countries still have discriminatory nationality laws that deny women the same nationality rights as men, reveals a worldwide

A group of 135 doctors have signed a judicial protest asking for a review of Malta's blanket ban on abortion care, after an American woman had her request to te

MONROVIA – As part of its ongoing effort to chart the progress of women’s public leadership across Africa, the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) has published its second annual report, ‘Shifting the Land

Commonwealth's gender equality obligations are a concern for Heads of Government.

188 women file judicial protest against health ministry to not only remove Malta’s blanket ban on abortion, but also to decriminalise and legalise the procedure

This is more so disturbing when the size of representation of women in the political – and even wider public space - is considered.

NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Akan Rakhmetullin met with Anita Bhatia, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Kazinform has learned from the press service of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry.

Sanitary Pad Media Campaign (SPMC) has taken delivery of some 10,000 packs of reusable sanitary pads from Diatom Impact, a subsidiary of Platform Capital, to alleviate period poverty among vulnerable schoolgirls from low income and poor communities in Nigeria.

The possibility that more than half of the United States could ban abortion if the contents of a leaked draft opinion become reality and Roe v Wade is overturned is of concern to the IBAHRI.

After a draft majority opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States was leaked earlier this month, one legal institute has warned that banning abortions across the US would represent a massive s