Japan's PM frontrunner vows insurance coverage for fertility treatments
Yoshihide Suga pledged to create an "environment where women can stay healthy and play an active role in the community"
Demanding justice, feminist activists occupy offices in Mexico
Families of the missing ramped up protests over the kidnappings and murders of women, most of which goes uninvestigated or unsolved
UK court sentences man who filmed naked, unconscious woman after five-year battle
Christopher Killick was fined and ordered to attend rehabilitation after pleading guilty to filming a naked woman as she slept
Congolese abuse survivors rebuild lives, brick by brick
Women and girls in war-torn DRC are being trained as builders as part of a scheme to help them find work
Afghan government says mother's name can go on birth certificates
Campaigners have for years pushed for women to be named on official documents, using the hashtag #Whereismyname
Ban virginity tests - Afghanistan rights panel
The tests claim to verify whether a woman has been sexually active outside of marriage, but their veracity has been debunked
Boys being groomed online to hate women, British author warns
Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates says boys are echoing the language of radical anti-feminist groups
Egypt's #MeToo crusader fights sex crimes via Instagram
Nadeen Ashraf has exposed two major sexual assaults via social media
Tuk-tuk warriors: the abuse victims who rode to women's rescue in lockdown India
In Bhopal, abuse survivors put their new skills as rickshaw drivers to work under lockdown as domestic violence cases increased
Abuse victims hope Jamaica election brings long-awaited women's shelters
As Jamaicans head to the polls thousands of abuse victims hope the next government will open the island's first state-run shelters for women suffering domestic abuse