Women news

Missouri's only abortion clinic wins licensing battle with state
World leaders warn coronavirus could roll back progress for women
Mexico walks back campaign against domestic violence
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Domestic abuse and coronavirus
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Women and climate change
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Who are the women who could be Biden's running mate?
Pandemic worsens pain of periods for women across the world
Italian centres for abused women lose funding amid lockdown
'Lockdown generation' as pandemic risks robbing young of future
Africa's women journalists use radio against coronavirus fake news
Electric motorbike gives Zimbabwe women a path out of poverty
Pandemic raises fears for pregnant U.S. inmates
Coronavirus widows lose their husbands and then their land
New hotline helps families survive abuse in Congo
COVID fuels rise in child labour and child marriages in Yemen
Afghan women breastfeed babies who lost mothers in militant attack
'I had no choice': Sex for rent rises with coronavirus poverty
UK plans codeword scheme to cease domestic abuse in lockdown
Mexico's former prisoners work to free hundreds of women
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Pakistan's 'honour killings' show women need digital skills
Uganda women fear food shortages, coronavirus and HIV a deadly mix
Chores and childcare: who bears the brunt in lockdown? Women
Salma Hayek launches campaign to fight domestic violence
Jump in forced marriages feared after UK lockdown
Women's jobs at risk in Latin America in coronavirus crisis
As lockdown fuels domestic abuse, social media users fight back
Plaintiff in Roe v. Wade abortion case says she was paid to lie
New U.N. envoy warns closed borders embolden human traffickers
Femicides in Argentina reach 10-year high under lockdown
Somalia sees "massive" rise in FGM during lockdown and Ramadan
Pakistan police arrest three over 'honour killing' of sisters
Iraq's stalled domestic violence bill may be revived by government
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With mutual aid fund, NY sex workers take on crisis relief
U.S. online marriages feared providing cover for child brides
A computer game to save the world -- good news stories of the week
Afghan accused of mutilating wife after she asks for divorce
Coronavirus puts 4 million girls at risk of child marriage
Hundreds of child weddings thwarted in Ethiopia amid coronavirus
Coronavirus to exacerbate gender pay gap - German study
Women's sport must not bear brunt of COVID-19 cutbacks: Steggall
Digital lifeline for women running Asia's small businesses
Coronavirus is hurting women in tech
Rihanna cracks male dominated top 10 of Britain's richest musician
Women, migrants, suffer most in Latin America as coronavirus rages
Panama says be fair on trans people in gender-based lockdowns
Afghan airlines at risk of collapse, taking women's jobs with them
Sitting ducks: UK charity sees calls surge from stalking victims
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Opinion

Amparo Peñaherrera Federación de Mujeres de Sucumbíos

Tackling gender-based violence during the pandemic

Women are using emojis to secretly ask for help as they suffer lockdowns trapped at home with their abusers
Kersti Kaljulaid, Helen Clark, ... Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Women and children will pay for this pandemic – unless we act

COVID-19 magnifies inequality, but an effective response will require solidarity and partnership
Brita Fernandez Schmidt Women for Women International

Marginalised women are being left behind amid coronavirus

2020 should have been a ‘big year for women’s rights’. Instead, women living in conflict are being left behind
Dorothy Tembo International Trade Centre

A time to stand together and build a more gender-equal tomorrow

We can grasp this crisis as an opportunity to accelerate women's economic empowerment for a fairer world

In Depth

India's women seaweed divers swim against the tide of climate change
Trafficked 'brides' stuck in China due to coronavirus after fleeing abuse
India's grandmothers harvest new social status from climate-smart farming
With a knock on the door, Egypt aims to turn families greener

Videos & Pictures

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Beyond Boko Haram
Danish 'sex ambulance' seeks to protect sex workers
Colombia's City of Women rebuilds homes and hopes
You are enough - painting extraordinary women
Rowing against the flow
Afghan government adviser turned refugee pushes women's rights

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'We don't know what will happen tomorrow': Life under lockdown in a New Delhi homeless shelter
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INTERVIEW-Pakistani child bride wrongly jailed for murder courts justice
Europe braces for domestic abuse 'perfect storm' amid coronavirus lockdown
Witchcraft beliefs blamed for halting drive to end FGM in Guinea