Iranian intelligence forces arrested four women from Kurdistan province following their attendance at an International Women's Day event in Sanandaj days prior, a human rights watchdog reported on ...

Form Content In this article for International Women's Day,  Alexis Boddy - JURIST UK correspondent, reports on the Equality Now report which ...

As the list of those persecuted in the country grows, it is obvious that Iran’s leadership is systemically opposed to musical ...

Though it often addresses men, the Quran has much to say about women: from marriage and divorce to property rights.

Saudi Arabia is now chairing the UN’s top women’s rights body, presiding until March 21st at a gathering of global leaders that is supposed to address ...

The grim reality of gender-based atrocities pervades every corner of our world, evincing in abhorrent forms such as sexual violence, dowry deaths, domestic violence, female foeticide and infanticide, ...

A new global report analyzing sex discrimination in laws reveals that while some commendable gains have been achieved in strengthening legal protections for women and girls over the past five years, ...

Amnesty International previously said bills being discussed in Iran would turn women into "baby-making ... fertility trends and the imbalance in the marriage market which led to a marriage boom ...

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef ( More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct an untitled ...

Sakhawat Memorial Girls School in Kolkata, founded by Begum Rokeya, empowers girls through education in a historic location.

EXCLUSIVE: French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef (More Than Ever, The Stranger In Me) is attached to direct the untitled ...

International Women's Day was celebrated the world over on March 8, but have women really been liberated? I belong to ...