In 2023, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee honoured Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” activists and awarded the coveted prize to the well-known and currently imprisoned women’s rights activist Narges ...

In 2024, Dominique was convicted of aggravated rape and sentenced to the maximum 20-year term. Of the remaining 50 co-defendants, 49 were found guilty of aggravated rape, attempted rape, or sexual ...

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African American figures from New England. In 1670, a 25-year-old Black woman purchased a home near what is now the Rose ...

Women at the top don’t ensure equality—Tanzania’s fight for representation continues from ...

There is fury today as Labour's new trans guidance for schools allowed the possibility of primary school pupils socially transitioning in 'rare' cases, with education leaders warning it could see ...

Days into the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, Trump officials and Kurdish leaders began openly musing about whether Iran’s Kurdish minority should seize on the dire situation facing the ...

Highlights from an evening celebrating the power of sisterhood ...

"It just means that more people will be able to see themselves in a story about joy and happy endings." ...

A stunning confession in the D.B. Cooper saga offers a potential breakthrough: one of seven confessions could reveal the ...

Indian OTT platforms are increasingly placing women at the centre of dark, psychologically intricate crime dramas. The streaming space is opening up for storytelling that risks focussing on female ...

Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.

The best way to learn something is to experience it. Even in relationships, you can read advice or watch romantic movies, thinking they'll teach you what to expect, but it’s not the same as feeling ...