China lawmakers urge freeing up family planning as birth rates plunge
Delegates from across the country urge leaders to improve healthcare and maternity benefits, offer tax breaks and provide more free public education
Wedlocked: tangled webs trap Cambodian 'brides' in China
Countless women from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar go to China to wed. Some end up happily married; others speak of violence and forced labour
Two Belgian women, renouncing Islamic State, fear kids will never go home
European nations are wrestling with how to handle militants and their families seeking to return as Islamic State's self-declared caliphate crumbles
Trial of prominent Saudi woman activist to start this week -family
Activists claim some detainees were held in solitary confinement and subjected to mistreatment and torture, including electric shocks, flogging, and sexual assault
Erdogan accuses women's march of disrespecting Islam
Several thousand women had gathered in central Istanbul on Friday evening for a march to celebrate International Women's Day but police fired tear gas to disperse them
Serena backs U.S. women in soccer gender discrimination lawsuit
All 28 members of the United States squad were named as plaintiffs in federal court in Los Angeles on International Women's Day
On International Women's Day, Sudan's Bashir orders release of female detainees
Sudan has seen near-daily protests against Bashir since Dec. 19
Thousands protest on International Women's Day in Brazil
Protesters call for gender equality and an end to violence against women
World champion U.S. women's soccer players sue federation for gender discrimination
Group that includes stars Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan, said they have been consistently paid less money than their male counterparts
Women's Day unites activists, Turkish police break up crowd with tear gas
In Berlin, city authorities declared Women's Day a formal holiday and thousands joined a colourful demonstration under sunny skies at the German capital's Alexanderplatz