Tag: women’s rights

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…

France’s gender equality minister Marlène Schiappa has donated her hair to a charity that makes wigs for women with cancer…

The former western Irish mother and baby home where as many as 796 children were buried in the 20th century…

Nike says it is “deeply concerned” by the rape claims against Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured), who has an…

A Swedish court has sentenced a French photographer at the heart of a Nobel scandal to two years in jail…

A second Swiss canton has voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to introduce a “burqa ban”.  St Gallen in northeast Switzerland…

French feminists have vandalised Paris’ new open-air street urinals, labelling them discriminatory. The bright-red boxes are near Notre-Dame cathedral right…