National Women's Day is celebrated in India on February 13 to mark the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, a freedom fighter, child prodigy and poet, with many firsts under her hat. The day stands as ...

On July 21, 1802, Isaiah Thomas published in his Massachusetts Spy that Deborah Sampson, referred to as Mrs. Gannett, was arriving in Worcester to give her speech at the courthouse. On July 22, 1802, ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

There’s no denying it any longer: the right is now the de facto champion of women’s rights. This has been steadily more evident for years, but the moment President Donald Trump placed pen ...

As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria’s Assad regime, the future of women’s rights remains precarious. Power transitions in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood’s president, addresses an audience during an event in Hooksett, N.H ...

The event was put on by "Women's March Minnesota" starting with a rally at St. Paul College and a march to the Capitol Lawn. One woman told WCCO she's there for human rights and the rights of her ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Congress overwhelmingly passed the Equal ...

Handwritten signs waved in the air, with slogans like “Women’s rights are human rights”. Celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Janelle Monae and Gloria Steinem gave speeches warning of ...

What is the Equal Rights Amendment? First introduced by women's rights activist Alice Paul in 1923, the ERA is a succinct declaration of equality: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be ...

Despite Trump's role in restricting abortion rights and a court finding him liable for sexual assault, more white women voted for him in 2024 than in 2016, some 53% compared to 52%. Only 7% of ...

Alice Paul celebrating the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, in 1920. Three years later, she wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment.Credit ...