Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will mark 30 years since the famous Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, also known as the “Beijing ...

A significant step towards strengthening women’s rights and advancing gender equality in Ghana has been marked with the ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

The notion of gender equality 25 is often used to refer to equality between women and men. It describes a state of affairs in which women and men enjoy equal rights and opportunities, where the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- It was a special night marking ten years of making a difference for gender equality in New York City. Eyewitness News' Sade Baderinwa was the emcee for the "HeForShe" gala on ...

Gender equality is enshrined in the opening preamble of United Nations Charter 1945. But despite progress and some setbacks, not a single country has delivered 100% on gender equality. Is the sinister ...

A growing number of young delegates now arrive at UN gender negotiations not to advance rights, but to systematically ...

On 2 March this year, Yanar Mohammed, a prominent feminist figure in Iraq, was shot dead outside her home by two gunmen – the latest in a string of activists killed, likely by units of the Popular ...

Every so often, someone is grumbling about how women's and girl's empowerment initiatives are "too much" and how the issues of the boy child are getting neglected. Well, the journey to gender equality ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Participants during FEMNET's three-day workshop. [Beryl Ringos, Standard] Every so often, someone is grumbling about ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — During Ramadan last year, Asra Nomani took a deep breath and entered the front door of the Islamic Center in Morgantown, shunning tradition and the women's balcony to pray on the ...