Where is one of worst places to be a woman? Afghanistan. That’s what most people think when it comes to the topic of the women’s rights crisis under the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. But this only ...

From the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls’ rights have suffered serious setbacks. Despite the challenges, there also have been improvements and victories. Today, for ...

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance is sounding the alarm that the right of women to vote, long treated as untouchable, could erode along the country's current political path, after watching ...

This is an extract from an article by Argentine journalist Luciana Peker published in Muy Waso, a Bolivian media partner of Global Voices. The Argentine government closed the Ministry of Women, Gender ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. The 19th Amendment is part of a larger story about voting ...

They called themselves the “Women in Red.” Dressed in crimson robes and white caps, they marched with faces downturned in silent protest against Israel’s government in the year before the war in Gaza.

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disagrees with revoking women’s right to vote, after he reposted a video last week about Christian nationalist pastors who say they want to repeal the ...

Autocracies now outnumber democracies, and nearly three-quarters of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule. Over the past decade, dictators in China and Russia consolidated their ...