The brutal killing of three females – two women and a 15-year-old girl – has sparked mass protests in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, with thousands demanding justice, ...

A new study showed more than 1 in 3 Australian men (35%) aged 18-65 years have used intimate partner violence in their lifetime.

In a remote village clinic in the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan last week, a group of teenage girls were given potentially life-saving reproductive health advice, excited by the small ki ...

The Iranian Government has continued to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of civilians, including young children and women, as part of a concerted effort to crush dissent, investigat ...

Female activists raised their voices at the United Nations on Friday as they marked International Women's Day amid a global trend of backsliding on hard-won rights.

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned a new ban imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan preventing women and girls from attending private medical institutions, warning that it wi ...

A new report released by UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Monday showed that in 2023, 140 women and girls died every day at the hands of their partner or a close r ...

An American woman will receive $5.6 million after she was sexually violated during a strip search when she visited a prison to meet her husband, media reports said.

A 19-year-old woman in China ended her life by jumping into the river after her family forced her to engage a man whom she met during a blind date.