Iranian chess ref accused of flouting dress code says she won't return home
Iranian chess referee Shohreh Bayat looks on during the Women's World Chess Championship in Vladivostok, Russia January 16, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev
China frees #MeToo activist held for three months -lawyers
Freelance journalist and activist Sophia Huang Xueqin reported on China's nascent #MeToo movement in 2018 and had shared her own experience of sexual harassment in the workplace
Young Afghan woman teaches Sufi dance in Kabul for 'inner peace'
Women have won hard-fought rights since the rule of the Taliban was ended in 2001 but there are growing fears that gains might be reversed as the U.S. seeks to end more than 18 years of war
Judge in Weinstein rape trial says case is not a 'referendum' on #MeToo movement
Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to charges in New York of assaulting two women, and faces life in prison if convicted on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault
Senegal rape law offers hope after years of silence
Legislation brings hope to women who campaigned to force the West African nation to accept that rape must stop
Breaking down walls, Iranian women fight home-built patriarchy
A female architect has developed an ambitious project to map 'signs of resistance' of Iranian women in their own homes
Sex trade flourishes in Peru's Amazon despite crackdown on illegal mining
Often poor and with little education, women and girls from indigenous farming communities make easy prey for traffickers, who lure them with false promises of well-paid jobs
Bloomberg makes pitch to women, says he regrets 'bawdy' jokes
Dogging Bloomberg's campaign are allegations that he made inappropriate comments toward women and that his company fostered a hostile environment for female employees
U.S. Virgin Islands sues Jeffrey Epstein estate, alleges widespread sex trafficking
The complaint significantly broadens the scope of Epstein's alleged sexual misconduct, saying it occurred as recently as 2018 and targeted girls as young as 11 or 12
Women in top jobs still rare in corporate Europe, study finds
Among the 12 countries with at least 10 companies represented, Norway ranked top for gender diversity, with Switzerland closing the ranking