Fight against sexual harassment in workplace takes on U.S. healthcare
Time's Up Healthcare will promote policies to make healthcare leadership more gender-balanced and accountable and address workplace discrimination, harassment and abuse
Chilean nuns find 'relief' in Pope's recognition of Church abuse
Earlier this month Pope Francis said he was committed to stopping the abuse of nuns by priests and bishops, some of which had amounted to 'sexual slavery'
Murder conviction quashed for UK woman who killed abusive husband
About 2 million people, predominantly women, suffer domestic abuse every year in Britain
C-section for 11 year-old rape victim in Argentina sparks outcry
The majority Catholic region of Latin America and the Caribbean has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world
Gang rape and murder of 12-year-old girl sparks outrage in Somalia
Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region passed the country's first Sexual Offences Law in 2016, which criminalises rape, sexual harassment and online sexual offences
Are new smartphone disease trackers missing a key target: women?
Across low- and middle-income countries, 313 million fewer women than men use mobile internet, representing a gender gap of 23 per cent
Portugal declares day of mourning for domestic violence victims
In 2017 a Portuguese court upheld a light sentence for a woman's attackers on the grounds they may have been motivated by her adultery
Robert Kraft, massage parlor trafficking, and national efforts to end it
The women, all from China, were fraudulently recruited and coerced into servicing up to 1,500 men a year without access to the profit their enslavement was raising for their traffickers
Saudi sisters stranded in Hong Kong face deportation as visa deadline nears
The pair, aged 18 and 20, whose identities have not been revealed in a bid to secure their safety, say they could face death if they are deported
Women have only three quarters of economic rights of men, finds World Bank
Discriminatory laws mean women are held back from gaining economic independence and also contribute to a loss of $160 trillion in lost earnings worldwide each year