Saudi women’s rights activist sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison
Loujain al-Hathloul has already been in pre-trial detention and has endured several stretches of solitary confinement.
Women’s groups lead more protests over Poland’s abortion law
Women’s rights activists are holding a fifth day of protests across Poland after a top court tightened the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law.
This Ida B. Wells mosaic is also a monument to women’s suffrage
Look closely at this floor mosaic of the pionnering journalist, and a portrait of the fight for women's suffrage appears.
A century ago, some American women won the right to vote. Here’s what women say today
Eleven female voters shared their perspective about this moment’s significance with the PBS NewsHour, in their own words.
An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as the family gives their consent.
Women's rights groups are protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's appointment of an interior minister who has been accused of rape and a justice minister who has criticized the #MeToo movement.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general, who has vowed to go to court if needed to see the Equal Rights Amendment adopted, plans to announce “landmark civil rights litigation” dealing with the proposed Constitutional amendment, his office announced Wednesday.
Virginia has officially become the critical 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The State's ratification opens a new chapter in the nearly century-long push to get the amendment added to the Constitution.
U.S. women won the right to vote a century ago; the fight to instill in the Constitution equal rights regardless of sex is nearly as old. The Equal Rights Amendment was a major national topic in the 1970s -- but…
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