Girlbosses of old wanted to take the financial crown from men. But here, too, they faced a rigged system — and instead of charging after the broader structural imbalances keeping one gender poorer than the other, they championed the climbing of corporate ladders by individual women. Sánchez certainly makes no claims to challenge systemic inequality….
The UK Supreme Court, in its judgment on a petition against a 2018 Scottish law that called for greater representation of women in public boards and included transgender women, has said the court’s role is “not to define the meaning of the word ‘woman’ other than when it is used in the provisions of the…
A Hong Kong government lawyer has urged a court to dismiss an activist’s judicial challenge against a prison rule barring women inmates from wearing shorts in summer, saying individual preferences should not override the need to maintain a “humane and decent” custodial environment. The High Court on Monday heard oral arguments arising from Chow Hang-tung’s…
Many countries require that consent be given before sex — and have written that into their rape laws. France is not among them. Now, two lawmakers hope to change that. Debate has begun on their bill, and a vote, in the powerful lower house of the French Parliament, is expected on Tuesday. Their cause has…
The United States has lifted multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior American official, a significant shift by the Trump administration toward some of the most blood-soaked jihadists from the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. The move comes days after a U.S. hostage envoy, Adam Boehler, made the first…
The day her father and dozens of other men were convicted of raping her mother in a trial that had gripped France was an acute personal tragedy to Caroline Darian. She escaped the Avignon courthouse and was enveloped in a giant crowd of women blocking traffic and chanting their love and gratitude for her and…
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“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all,” she said at the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995. Hibaaq Osman remembers this moment clearly. The founder and chief executive…
A popular Iranian musician who was arrested two years ago during a crackdown on artists and academics has been punished with 74 lashes in what activists said on Thursday was a bid to humiliate him for supporting a nationwide uprising. The musician, Mehdi Yarrahi, 43, was subjected to the flogging by officers of the Morality…
The video blogger had visited Dongji Village, in eastern China, to find a man known for raising eight children despite deep poverty. The man had become a favorite interview subject for influencers looking to attract donations and clicks. But that day, one of the children led the blogger to someone not featured in many other…