Korean women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn return to the DMZ to call on the leaders of the United States and North Korea to return to talks and negotiate a final settlement to the nearly 70-year-old Korean War. Ahn's article argues the importance of including women in the peace negotiations.
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 new report reveals that widespread sexual harassment of Chinese female journalists has been meeting with abysmal responses by media companies and government.
In late November, officials from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement announced that the Law for Protection from Violence against Women, legislation women’s rights activists have advocated for since 2013, will likely be enacted in 2019.
On Tuesday, in the run-up to the opening of the Indian legislature’s winter session on December 11, women’s groups came together to express frustration and outrage that the Women’s Reservation Bill, which aims to ensure Indian women’s equal representation in elected office, has not yet been passed.















