Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

Around a hundred of us gathered this morning in the sub-freezing cold at a city cemetery to remember volunteer activist ...

The couple lived in Brooklyn Heights and California before settling in Stapleton the 1970s. Ms. Mailman immersed herself in ...

This video explores the complex history of women in the Soviet Union, tracing their journey from early voting rights in the ...

Zimbabwe was represented at the conference by Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Amon Murwira. THE government has come under fire from human rights activists for remaining silent amid ...

They called themselves the “Women in Red.” Dressed in crimson robes and white caps, they marched with faces downturned in silent protest against Israel’s government in the year before the war in Gaza.

GENEVA (AP) — More than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists have reported violence online, with over 40% saying they have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse, ...

In honor of Human Rights Defenders Day on Dec. 9, Mongabay looks back at The Clearing, a documentary about young Cambodian activists currently jailed for their environmental and social activism.