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Thousands of women rally nationwide for abortion rights and feminist causes

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Fearless Fund drops grant program for Black women business owners in lawsuit settlement

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Biden spotlights 30th anniversary of Violence Against Women Act as his presidency enters final stages

Fearless Fund drops grant program for Black women business owners in lawsuit settlement

‘We are all in disbelief’: How the New Hampshire National Guard failed to protect female soldiers

Olympic breaking athlete disqualified for ‘free Afghan women’ cape

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Lydia Ko completes ‘Cinderella-like story’ with Women’s Open victory after Olympic gold in Paris

‘We are more than just a conflict’: Palestinian women’s soccer team on their whirlwind return to the pitch

'We cannot speak': Activist on women's lives under Taliban rule

Secret Service calls right-wing media attacks on female agents ‘baseless’ and ‘disgusting’

Women's Rugby Olympian shares how she deals with haters

Violence against women and girls at ‘epidemic’ levels, UK police say

Women and girls in Sudan subjected to widespread sexual violence by warring parties, report finds

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Two Apple employees sue over alleged gender discrimination in pay

Australian state appoints official for ‘Men’s Behavior Change’ as outcry over violence against women grows

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Aida Shakarami: Iran morality police arrests dead protester's sister, mother says

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Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown

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UN picks Saudi Arabia to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record

Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

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French Senate backs enshrining right to abortion in constitution

Indian women are being told nationalism will empower them. It’s a trick

‘The staff get hush money’: the hidden scandal of rape in Indian prisons

‘They only knew how to fight’: school helps girls to heal after Boko Haram

Women’s rights are disappearing in Argentina. Don’t be complacent – yours could be next to go

‘All feminists are under attack’: ultra-right threat in Milei’s Argentina forces writer into exile

Afghan girls detained and lashed by Taliban for violating hijab rules

Iranian journalists celebrating release from jail charged for not wearing hijab

Femicide in Kenya is a national crisis, say rights groups

‘We said, there must be ladies’: the pioneering Maasai women ending all-male leadership of the land

‘My friends were amazed’: Nigerian women break ‘male’ jobs barrier amid cost-of-living crisis

‘I am here, get used to me’: in India, a woman out running is about more than just exercise

‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

Malawian women forced to sell sex after cyclone destroys crops

Chile votes to reject new conservative constitution which threatened rights of women

Taliban could be convinced to open girls’ schools, says Afghanistan ex-education minister

Russian authorities crack down on abortion access amid demographic crisis

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South Africa to introduce shared parental leave after landmark judgment

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36% of US counties are ‘maternity care deserts,’ raising risks for women and babies, new report finds

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Georgia federal judge rejects conservative activist group’s effort to halt grant funding for Black women

Conservative women leaders make their entrance at the UN General Assembly

Afghan women once worked in this popular national park. Now they’re not even allowed to visit

Women and doctors challenge taboos on dangers of HPV in Egypt

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Fox’s Greg Gutfeld goes on sexist rant, suggests crimes would ‘disappear’ if women went away

After months of investigating, Oregon authorities believe the deaths of 4 young women are connected

Burner phones. Pizza crust. DNA on burlap. A New York architect was charged with killing 3 women in Gilgo Beach serial killings cold case

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center facing civil rights investigation for treatment of Black women giving birth

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Women made to strip in Kenyan cheese factory over sanitary towel in bin

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Southern Baptist Convention votes to uphold removal of Saddleback Church over women pastors after appeal by Rick Warren

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Two women stabbed to death in mall knife attack that has shocked Hong Kong

People of color and women are underrepresented on state supreme court benches, report finds

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UN tells Afghan staff to stay home after Taliban bans women from working with the organization

Iran installs cameras to identify women breaking dress code

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US sanctions top Iranian officials over ‘serious’ human rights abuses against women and girls in prisons

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An Oregon man accused of torturing woman before killing himself is now also a double-homicide suspect, police say

Women living in states with abortion bans suffer greater economic insecurity

As U.S. unemployment improved, it worsened for Latinos and Black women

Armed men kidnap 50 women and girls foraging for food in Burkina Faso

Five locations throughout the US have been renamed to remove a derogatory term for Indigenous women

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At least 58 Iranian children reportedly killed since anti-regime protests began

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Another teenage girl dead at hands of Iran’s security forces, reports claim

Women powered a blue wave in 2018. Now the tables appear to have turned

Black and poor women may decide who will be the next president of Brazil

‘The decisive vote’: Fetterman and Oz bet big on women in the Philadelphia suburbs

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36% of US counties are ‘maternity care deserts,’ raising risks for women and babies, new report finds

Iran’s ‘women’s revolution’ could be a Berlin Wall moment

Women powered a blue wave in 2018. Now the tables appear to have turned

Black and poor women may decide who will be the next president of Brazil

‘The decisive vote’: Fetterman and Oz bet big on women in the Philadelphia suburbs

Sotomayor speaks about the new dynamic of having 4 women on Supreme Court

Why women in leadership roles are more likely than ever to quit

36% of US counties are ‘maternity care deserts,’ raising risks for women and babies, new report finds

Iran’s ‘women’s revolution’ could be a Berlin Wall moment