Ex-USC gynecologist arrested in Los Angeles amid sexual misconduct probe
Hundreds of women have accused Tyndall of subjecting them to molestation, lewd comments and other sexually inappropriate behavior during medical exams
Cocoa-growing Ivory Coast draws up new plan to stop child labour
Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, launched its first national action plan against child labour in 2012, but the problem remains widespread in poor farming communities
Record number of women candidates is changing dynamics of 2020 U.S. presidential race
When all six women candidates take the stage for the first official Democratic primary debate, they will outnumber the total number of women who have ever participated in a presidential primary debate
'Revenge porn' victims could win anonymity in UK courts
There were 464 prosecutions for revenge porn in 2017/18, according to Britain's Crown Prosecution Service
Iran expected to scrap ban on women passing nationality to children
Such laws can fuel statelessness, potentially depriving people of basic rights such as education, health care, housing and employment
'No regrets, says Spanish boxer-politician fighting gender violence
Beaten up by her partner when she was pregnant with her first child, the young Spaniard has since used boxing, and now politics, to champion women's rights
U.N. urges legal reform to protect women from rape at home
Nearly one in five women aged 15 to 49 globally experienced physical, sexual or emotional abuse from a former or current partner or spouse in the previous year
Thai model launches picture books to confront sex education taboos
Although Thailand is one of the most socially liberal countries in Asia, sex education focuses on basic biology and anatomy, leaving many unclear about the risks
Selling sketches and clothes, Libyan women set up businesses against the odds
Cumulative inflation over the last four years has seen real incomes lose more than half of their purchasing power, and the government effectively devalued the dinar last September
Southeast Asia urged to improve women's rights to stop China bride trafficking
The demand for foreign brides in China has become a lucrative business for traffickers as the country's decades-long one-child policy has created a huge gender imbalance