Sudan to outlaw female genital mutilation
Sudan has one of the highest rates of FGM in the world. According to the UN, 87% of Sudanese women have undergone the practice.
Sudan to outlaw female genital mutilation Read more
Sudan has one of the highest rates of FGM in the world. According to the UN, 87% of Sudanese women have undergone the practice.
Sudan to outlaw female genital mutilation Read more
Cabrini Day – recognizing Frances Xavier Cabrini who created 67 schools, hospitals, and orphanages in the U.S. and South and Central America – will be the first paid state holiday recognizing a woman in the U.S.
Colorado will replace Columbus Day with Cabrini Day Read more
The judgment, seen as a landmark decision for the Indian military, means that all women will now be eligible for the same promotions, ranks, benefits and pensions as their male counterparts, irrespective of their years of service or whether they had retired.
Landmark ruling grants women equal rights in Indian army Read more
A high court judge and ardent human rights advocate has been elected Greece’s first female president in a historic vote by parliament.
Katerina Sakellaropoulou becomes Greece’s first female president Read more
On International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a women’s rights group active in the Kurdistan Region announced that zero cases of GM were reported in the Garmiyan Administration in 2019.
Women’s rights group eliminates female genital mutilation in Kurdistan’s Garmiyan region Read more
The policy aims “to reduce and eliminate structural differences, gender gaps and inequalities, in order to build a more just and prosperous society.”
Mexico releases Latin America’s first “feminist foreign policy” Read more
Saudi Arabia is ending the requirement that restaurants have two separate entrances: one for families and women and another for unaccompanied men.
Saudi Arabia is dropping gender rules for restaurant entrances Read more
Claudia López won the race for mayor of Bogota on a platform promising to combat corruption and advance equal rights for minority communities.
Colombia’s capital city of Bogota elects first female mayor Read more
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first spacewalk with an all-women team. Since cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk in 1984, women have participated in 42 spacewalks.
NASA astronauts successfully complete first ever all-woman spacewalk Read more
Women will now be able to get abortions up to 22 weeks into their pregnancy without proving that their health will be impacted if they continue the pregnancy.
Abortion decriminalized in Sydney after Australian lawmakers overturn 119-year-old law Read more