Women's rights

The Trump administration has worked to bring its domestic agenda to the U.N. and other global fora with alarming scale and speed.

Giving fathers paid leave after their children are born is a crucial part of the battle for women's equality.

Bernie Sanders backed abortion rights and blasted male-dominated legislatures in a 1972 article surfaced Wednesday, revealing another decades-long contrast with Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court justice has produced 20 pages of false equivalences and historical distortions.

"I will have a broad conversation with the vice president in which, of course, that'll come up," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said of his planned meeting with Mike Pence.

In most states menstrual products are not sales tax-exempt, a category primarily reserved for food, prescription medications, and other “necessities of life.”

“While this is a good sign of de-escalation, given that these women have been detained since last May, it doesn’t signal that their ordeal is over yet,” said a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“For Trump and his team, human rights is just another cudgel they wield opportunistically in service of a vision for the Middle East,” Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, told Newsweek.

Bill and Melinda Gates described worldwide Big Data as inherently "sexist," as opposed to objective, with the Microsoft co-founder saying the gender divide is hindering progress on women's rights.

The new regulations could help mitigate the problem of so-called “secret divorces."

The abuse left some women unable to walk or even stand, while one prisoner, after an especially brutal session, repeatedly tried to kill herself.

Imelda Cortez suffered years of abuse by her stepfather.

The girl had been in hospital for four days and was reportedly on a ventilator when attacked.

A survey asked Americans to evaluate movies with abortion as a theme, and rank them according to how comfortable they were with the way the issue was handled.

"So much is at stake in this country," the organization's founder and president told Newsweek. "And people are really paying attention to what's going on right now."

"It is my intention that the services will be free," said Health Minister Simon Harris.

Police in India arrested the man and his wife after a neighbor tipped off a local women's safety organization.

The man was detained on charges of “committing several violations and taking up a post exclusively reserved for Saudis.”

Donald Trump repeatedly called for American troops to withdraw from Afghanistan because the war is expensive.

The Royal Police Cadet Academy has said it will not admit women from 2019 onward.

If you live in a rural area, or a bright red state, and you don’t have money, Roe v. Wade doesn’t mean much right now.

The 17-year-old, identified only as Khadija, had been kidnapped at knife-point while visiting her mother.

The 29-year-old has been detained since 2015 for involvement in anti-government protests.

A bill to legalize abortion at up to 14 weeks was defeated earlier this month in Argentina.

All it took was a letter from Zoe Carew.

Two men were arrested for burning Salma al-Sharif’s car, but officials said it was an isolated incident.

The Episcopal Church is set to debate the gender of God, specifically whether the Supreme Being is male or gender-neutral. 

Donald Trump said his pick for the Supreme Court could ultimately see the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights decided on a state-by-state basis.

Arrests continue apace as Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has lifted the ban on women driving.

The U.S. is the only Western nation on the list.