On Aug. 4, Iraq’s parliament debated a draft law that would allow religious doctrine to govern people’s private affairs—especially marriages and child custody. This is a blow to women’s rights ...
In its latest assault on basic freedoms, Afghanistan has banned women and girls from speaking in public. It marks a new low in the Taliban-led government’s enforced gender apartheid. Promises ...
MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE—Kateryna Nahorna is getting ready to find trouble. Part of an all-female team of dog handlers, the 22-year-old is training Ukraine’s technical survey dogs—Belgian Malinois that have learned to ...
Last month several women rose to the top echelons of international politics. Kamala Harris emerged as the lead presidential candidate of the U.S. Democratic Party, Ursula von der Leyen was ...
In January 2020, Mexico made history as the first Latin American country to adopt a feminist foreign policy. Pioneered by Sweden six years earlier in 2014, feminist foreign policy (FFP) ...
On May 28, Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council elected former Prime Minister Garry Conille to lead the country once again and head its transitional government, which holds a mandate through 2026. ...
Melinda French Gates announced this week that she is dumping one billion dollars into women’s organizations around the world, including groups that promote killing unborn babies via abortion in the ...
Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, refugees began pouring over the border to Moldova. Ludmila Popovici, the executive director of RCTV Memoria, a Moldovan nonprofit that works with ...
Over the past month, the public in Kazakhstan has been closely following the jury trial of Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who was accused of brutally beating and killing his wife, Saltanat Nukenova. ...
On Monday, the jury reached a verdict in a high-profile murder trial that has captivated millions of Russian-speakers in recent weeks: Kazakhstan’s former economy minister, Kuandyk Bishimbayev, was sentenced to ...
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