Tag: women’s rights

The Polish health authorities have told doctors it is legal to terminate a pregnancy when the mother’s health is in…

Kyrgyzstan’s authorities have been accused of arresting approximately 70 activists – mostly women – last week, according to Human Rights…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the police in southern Russia have raided the homes and office of activists who helped…

Spanish women have protested after five men were cleared by a Barcelona court of gang-raping a 14-year-old in an abandoned…

Almost 200 top-flight women’s footballers have voted to go on strike over pay and working conditions.  The vote won 93-per-cent…

Hackers have obtained personal details, user names, IP addresses and passwords of approximately 250,000 users of the sex-work forum hookers.nl…

A French court has ordered the founder of France’s #MeToo movement to pay €15,000 in damages to a man she…

More than 700 men in France have been convicted of sexist behaviour under a year-old law introduced to end the…

Spanish prosecutors in the trial of six males accused of attacking a 14-year-old in the northeast Catalan town of Manresa…

Yazidi women raped by Islamic State fighters have been left in the lurch once again, this time by their own…

The French courts say they have issued 447 fines in the previous eight months under a new law to protect…

Austria’s Secretary of State Karoline Edtstadler pulled few punches during her press conference earlier this month, standing alongside the Federal…

A Spanish man found guilty of killing his wife in 2003 died trying to avoid the police after allegedly murdering…

A Siberian police officer labelled Russia’s most prolific non-political mass murderer in recent years, has been convicted for killing 56…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her role as the most powerful woman in the country should not let it avoid…