women's rights

Women providing services within a beauty salon

'We are dead inside:’ Women in Afghanistan protest Taliban ban of beauty salons

The ban will come into effect in five days, leaving roughly 60,000 women out of work.

'We are dead inside:’ Women in Afghanistan protest Taliban ban of beauty salons
Close-up of woman in kitchen, looking at phone

A bill to allow divorce in the Philippines could mean freedom for some women in New York

A bill to allow divorce in the Philippines could mean freedom for some women in New York
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The Women's March on Washington will have sister marches in over 75 countries

The Women's March on Washington will have sister marches in over 75 countries
Runners compete in the Women's Marathon during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

See 120 years of struggle for gender equality at the Olympics

See 120 years of struggle for gender equality at the Olympics
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
Women on the street

These Indian women said they could protect their local forests better than the men in their village. The men agreed.

Empowered by a law giving them claim to their forests, village women are patrolling to keep poachers out.

These Indian women said they could protect their local forests better than the men in their village. The men agreed.
A priest holds up a banner reading "Brazil alive! Without abortion" while standing near an altar where Pope Francis later celebrated mass.

Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world

There are only six countries in the world that ban abortion under any circumstances. Four of them are in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world
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Filipina beauty queens' fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking at a 'woman's place'

The new documentary series, "A Woman's Place," explains how transgender beauty queens are lobbying for their rights outside of pageants.

Filipina beauty queens' fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking at a 'woman's place'
Malala classmates

Standing with Malala: Meet the teenagers who survived the Taliban and kept going to school

In the Taliban assassination attempt on Malala Yousafzai, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz were also shot—for no more than daring to go to school. Three years later, they’re more committed to education than ever.

Standing with Malala: Meet the teenagers who survived the Taliban and kept going to school
Carey Mulligan

Some of the earliest fighters for women's rights star in a new movie, Suffragette

Suffragette takes a real life story and brings it to the big screen.

Some of the earliest fighters for women's rights star in a new movie, Suffragette
A woman carries a baby as she talks with other women at a food distribution in Minkaman, South Sudan.

Where's the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?

The African Union report on South Sudan's war, which was published in October, contains details of old and young women who were gang raped and left bleeding and unconscious.

Where's the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?
obama visits malaysia 2015

#WhatObamaShouldKnow about women in Malaysia

We would like to invite you and your friends to help Obama to look at the status of women in the three countries that he will visit next week – Malaysia, Philippines and Turkey.

#WhatObamaShouldKnow about women in Malaysia
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Meet the Indian women trying to take down 'caste apartheid'

Asha Kowtal and the Dalit Women's Self-Respect March traveled across northern India to document the ongoing violence against women who were once branded as "untouchable." Now, they're raising new leaders, and finding allies in Black Lives Matter.

Meet the Indian women trying to take down 'caste apartheid'
CORINNE BY MARIA MARIA

María María Acha-Kutscher illustrated one of our listeners and it's amazing

As part of our Her Rights series last month, we put out a call to readers asking — What do YOU fight for? Here's what you said, illustrated.

María María Acha-Kutscher illustrated one of our listeners and it's amazing
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Need to know how your state's doing when it comes to women's health? There's an app for that.

A cabal of comics and writers have banded together to expose what they describe as "creeps hellbent on destroying access to birth control and abortion."

Need to know how your state's doing when it comes to women's health? There's an app for that.