Tag: women’s rights

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…

About 58 per cent of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape in the previous five years were…

Two members of Spain’s sex-offending “Wolf Pack” have caused outrage at a public pool in Palomares del Río, inflaming calls…

A man has been gored and four others injured on the first day of the bull-running festival in Pamplona. During…

Spain’s new cabinet is the first time to include more women than men. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist cabinet contains…

Irish President Michael Higgins has apologised to thousands of women forced to work in the republic’s notorious Magdalene laundries. Crowds…

Cities across Poland saw large protests (pictured) to oppose a tightening of abortion laws. Poland already has some of the…

Spain’s first national “feminist strike” has seen millions take to the streets and services disrupted.  The unprecedented national strike was…

A full murder inquiry in Ireland into the discovery of a baby boy on a beach in County Kerry in…

Human rights activists are warning that a law in Poland limiting access to emergency contraception will have a “catastrophic impact…

Modern Turkish women are confronted with numerous contradictions. Source: Wikimedia Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that family planning…