women's rights

A quiet residential morning in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar soon spiraled into a harrowing episode etched into the city’s collective memory—a case whose raw edges now threaten to blur the boundaries between victim and perpetrator in India’s ever-evolving discourse on live-in relationships, domestic...

Starting later this month, Arkansas women will have to seek permission from the man who impregnated them before having an abortion. Even if she does not want that man to know she is pregnant. Even if that man was her abusive ex-boyfriend. Even if that man was her rapist. The law change...

Women’s rights group Sisters Uncut have occupied Holloway Prison in London. The group has a history of eye-catching protests, including turning Trafalgar Square’s fountains red and storming the red carpet at the premier of Suffragette. Activists ‘reclaimed’ the old visitor’s centre after...

A feminist group in Ukraine has protested a radio station competition to "win a wife" in the most eye-catching way possible -- by removing clothes. The Femen Movement is angered by a contest organized by a New Zealand radio station that offered a listener the opportunity to travel to Ukraine...