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Women providing services within a beauty salon
Afghanistan
‘We are dead inside:’ Women in Afghanistan protest Taliban ban of beauty salons
Women's March activists participate in a nationwide protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to fill the seat on the Supreme Court left by the passing of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 election, in Washington, Oct. 17, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
How the US presidential election could impact women’s health worldwide
Sevilay, a mother of two in Istanbul, got permission from her husband to have an abortion as required by law. But she had trouble finding a public hospital that would do it, and even some of her friends criticize her for her decision.
Reproductive rights
Abortion increasingly hard to access in Turkey
the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wears a bright red suit jacket
Women & Gender
RBG’s early days in Sweden shaped her fight for women’s equality
A woman holds a pink cross during a protest to mark International Women's Day at Zocalo square in Mexico City, Mexico, March 8, 2020.
Women in Mexico take to the streets to protest femicide
Afghan women line up at a polling station as they wait to cast their votes in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 28, 2019.
Women & Gender
Analysis: A crucial moment for women’s rights in Afghanistan
Evelyn Hernández, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a suspected abortion, is hugged by a woman.
Sexual violence
El Salvador abortion laws offer warning for the US, lawyer says
Saudi women gather at a job fair in Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia grants women permission to apply for passports
Protesters carry banners and placards at a demonstration during a women's strike (Frauenstreik) in Zurich, Switzerland June 14, 2019.
Protest
Thousands of women walk off jobs in Switzerland
Two women hold their arms in a bicep flex pose. One is wearing a pink cardboard costume in the shape of the women's gender sign.
Generation Putin
After decades in the shadows, Russia’s feminists grab their spotlight
authorities
The US movement against female genital mutilation is at a crossroads
Chinese feminist
Women & Gender
The Chinese feminists fighting patriarchy in China from abroad
A woman wears a lacy bra and a blazer as she stands in front of a sweeping mountain vista in this screen grab from a music video. Below, a line from the song is spelled out in Kyrgyz.
Arts, Culture & Media
This Kyrgyz singer is getting death threats after releasing a music video and a song about women’s rights
A woman by a police car
Justice
Ukraine’s first female police officers won’t be posing for selfies anymore. They’re too busy doing their jobs.
A woman in a black dress stands on a city street in Japan. Signs with Japanese characters are behind her, on restaurants and billboards.
Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport
A young girl holds a balloon. Behind her are protestors carrying signs and children with more balloons. One person is dressed as a clown with a sign that says, "my body, my territory."
Women & Gender
In Paraguay, fighting for women’s rights means fighting the past
Men and women are walking in the streets of Kampala holding placards with messages in support of women's rights.
Women activists take to the streets of Kampala to demand more police action
Esther Armah
Sexuality
In Ghana, gender equality and economics clash
Close-up of woman in kitchen, looking at phone
Politics
A bill to allow divorce in the Philippines could mean freedom for some women in New York
Emila
Culture
How do you talk about gender when the words ‘simply don’t exist’ in your language?
Bhakti Shringarpure, at left
Media
This feminist author wants to get past ‘feminism-lite’
Marlene Schiappa (R), France's minister for gender equality, is spearheading the new law banning cat-calling and harassment of women on French streets.
Justice
In France, men who harass women on the street will face instant fines
Women wave "Yes" flags at a campaign office of the ruling AK Party
Conflict
Turkish women’s rights are at stake in Sunday’s elections
women's march
Global Politics
The Women’s March on Washington will have sister marches in over 75 countries
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.
Health
Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
Runners compete in the Women's Marathon during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Sports
See 120 years of struggle for gender equality at the Olympics
Women on the street
Environment
These Indian women said they could protect their local forests better than the men in their village. The men agreed.
A priest holds up a banner reading "Brazil alive! Without abortion" while standing near an altar where Pope Francis later celebrated mass.
Health
Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world
A masquerader during 2013 Carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This year, a Japanese tourist's murder spurred the mayor's resignation and a conversation about women's rights.
Culture
Is the death of a Japanese tourist at Trinidad’s Carnival a symptom of a society with a problem?
documentary
Culture
Filipina beauty queens’ fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking at a ‘woman’s place’
Malala classmates
Justice
Standing with Malala: Meet the teenagers who survived the Taliban and kept going to school
Carey Mulligan
Media
Some of the earliest fighters for women’s rights star in a new movie, Suffragette
obama visits malaysia 2015
Justice
#WhatObamaShouldKnow about women in Malaysia
A woman carries a baby as she talks with other women at a food distribution in Minkaman, South Sudan.
Conflict
Where’s the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?
women fight
Justice
Meet the Indian women trying to take down ‘caste apartheid’
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Global Politics
Need to know how your state’s doing when it comes to women’s health? There’s an app for that.
Development
Indian dudes to Indian dudes: Respect women
Hajia Bilkisu Yusuf sits with former first lady, Laura Bush, at the National Center for Women's Development in Abuja, Nigeria, January 2006.
Belief
Lost in the Hajj stampede was a pioneering journalist who united Christians and Muslims
foreverstan
Education
In perilous times, a triumph for these young women
CORINNE BY MARIA MARIA
Culture
María María Acha-Kutscher illustrated one of our listeners and it’s amazing
Afghan women's rights activists carry the coffin of Farkhunda, an Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set alight on fire on Thursday, during her burial ceremony in Kabul March 22, 2015
Justice
Why it’s hard for women to feel safe on the streets of Kabul
Iranian women watch Iran's national soccer team conduct a training session ahead of the 2006 World Cup.
Sports
Iran’s female sports fans may finally get bleacher seats instead of jail time
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) poses with female delegates at the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) on International Women's Day in Beijing on March 8, 2015.
Justice
China detains female activists ahead of International Women’s Day
Women hold up signs during an International Women's Day rally in Lahore, March 8, 2015. Reuters/Mohsin Raza
Global Politics
What should the world do next for equal rights for women?
Culture
Why Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th century feminist rock star
sonia narang fabella
Development
In this Manila ‘baby factory,’ why women put up with crowding four to a bed
motal turkey
Justice
‘You set our hearts ablaze:’ Horrific murder draws men in miniskirts onto streets of Turkey
Khaloob Mushref, at lef, is a biology major, and Hassan Zakari, right, is a psychology major at Marymount University
Culture
Saudi students in the US have confidence in their new king
Shymaa Abou el-Yazed is the world champion and captain of the Egyptian karate team.
Sports
This Egyptian karate champion is a role model for her country’s women
President Barack Obama talks about legislation to offer paid sick leave for Americans while at Charmington's Cafe in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 15, 2015.
Economics
The State of the Union kicked off Obama’s push for paid parental and sick leave
The Mraqisa family (L to R): father Lindela, son Bukho, daughter Ongeziwe and mother Nosicelo outside their home in Gugulethu Township.
Development
These South African men tackle violence against women — starting with themselves
Many students attended a demonstration demanding laws that make India safer for women and children.
Justice
Two years after New Delhi’s brutal gang rape, many say not enough has changed
Footage of two Indian sisters defending themselves from harrassment was filmed on a phone by a fellow passenger.
Justice
Indian sisters revive the country’s debate over women’s safety by fending off male attackers on camera
More than half of women in Mumbai, India don’t have indoor toilets. On average, women hold their bladders for 13 hours each day.
Development
Women in India agitate for their right to pee
Cape Town, South Africa at dusk.
Justice
Gender equality is the next great fight in a post-apartheid South Africa
Female Indonesian police officers stand guard outside the presidential palace during a protest against the recent fuel price hike in Jakarta on November 19th, 2014.
Justice
Indonesia has subjected policewomen to ‘humiliating’ virginity tests for decades
Kenyan women take part in a protest along a main street in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on November 17, 2014. They were demanding justice for a woman who was attacked and stripped recently by men who claimed that she was dressed indecently.
Justice
Miniskirts are only a symptom of Kenya’s problems with women, protesters say
A training ride, outside the city of Kabul, Afghanistan
Sports
Afghan women put aside their own safety and their country’s culture to create a national cycling team
The Underground Girls of Kabul
Development
Why some Afghans are raising their girls as boys
Yamina Jaouani in front of the cab that her daughter helped her buy. She's been driving a taxi in Tunis for nearly 30 years.
Culture
This Tunisian woman supports equal rights for women by driving a cab — something she’s done for 30 years