Women's, Rights and Equality

For All Women And Girls - Rights, Equality And Empowerment
March 8 marks International Women’s Day. It is a day when women receive flowers, chocolates and cards. However, women deserve more than
Women’s rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says
Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination is deeply embedded in economies and societies.
Women's rights under attack and 'we must fight back', says UN chief
Women's rights are under attack and "we must fight back," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, warning that the world cannot stand by as progress is reversed. At a United Nations event on the eve of International Women's Day on Saturday,
Global demonstrations mark women's fight for equal rights
Thousands have gathered in central London on International Women's Day, to demonstrate against male violence against women and girls. Demonstrations around the world on March 7 and 8 marked International Women's Day.
On International Women’s Day, research shows gender equality is still 150 years away
On March 8 each year, celebrations, commemorations, and marches for women’s gender equality occur from Dallas, Texas, throughout the rest of the world. According to the International Women’s Day website,
Confronting backlash against women's rights, 193 nations commit to speed action on gender equality
Confronting a rising backlash against women’s rights, the U.N.’s 193 member nations made a commitment Monday to accelerate ...
Hundreds rally in SLO for women’s rights amid Trump, Musk purges of government workers
About 400 people turned out Saturday for a protest and rally recognizing International Women’s Day, outside the courthouse in ...
International Women's Day protests demand equal rights and an end to discrimination, sexual violence
International Women's Day​ is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world.
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Women marched in 1970 to help win their rights, in 2017 to save them. Liane Brandon was at both.
Filmmaker and photographer Liane Brandon shot the Women’s March on Boston Common in 1970. Nearly 50 years later she returned ...
Hundreds rally in downtown Asheville for women's rights, education, climate change action
Asheville's Unite & Resist march attracted more than 600 demonstrators who voiced their concerns for issues like women and ...
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International Women’s Day gathering in Santa Rosa decries fascism, demise of women’s, human rights
Roughly 1,500 people gathered at Old Courthouse Square before they marched south to Santa Rosa City Hall for International ...
Colorful signs and loud voices fill downtown Portland in support of women's rights
Hundreds of women and their allies gathered in downtown Portland to celebrate International Women's Day, rallying for ...
Taliban insist Afghan women’s rights are protected as UN says their bans cannot be ignored
The Taliban say Afghan women live in security with their rights protected. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in ...
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Iraq: Personal Status Law Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February ...
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EU Commission lists challenges to progress on women's rights, but stops short on solutions
Amid a global backlash against women’s rights, the EU Commission presented on Friday its long-term political vision for ...