The United Nations passed a watered-down version of a resolution to end sexual violence in war on April 23 after bowing to pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate all references to sexual and reproductive health and protections for gay and transgender victims.

A groundbreaking poll finds that women of color voters have deep concerns about the state of the U.S. — and are determined to use their power for change.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.

A team of scholars is investigating why women's incarceration is increasing even as overall imprisonment rates have been declining.

The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.

Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.

The filmmakers hope that the documentary, a devastating portrayal of rape culture, will be used to fuel change.

The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.

Women now hold 102 seats in the House, the most ever. But thanks to Trump, 2018 was the political Year of the White Man.

This month is a good time to recognize the urgency of questions about what it means to be a woman.

Populist nationalist political leaders have been increasingly rising to power in recent years all over the world — from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK to President Trump. Now a group of female leaders has banded together to warn the world about how this growing embrace of right-wing authoritarianism undermines women’s rights across the globe.

The ninth annual event showcased stories about women leaders as well as ordinary women who rise to meet the challenges in their own lives.

After a narrow defeat in the Virginia legislature, the ERA campaign is heating up in several states.

Over the past two years, an estimated 30 women have had miscarriages while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to information released by the federal government and published by the Arizona Republic last week.