7 ridiculous restrictions on women’s rights around the world

With Saudi Arabian women behind the wheel since Saturday to protest their country’s refusal to grant driver’s licenses to women, they’re challenging not o...

Women2Drive' campaign gathers speed in their quest to lift the driving ban for women in Saudi Arabia

(New York) – Saudi authorities should end the country’s driving ban for women as the “Women2Drive” campaign gathers momentum, Human Rights Watch sai...

Polio cases in Syria spark alarm over rise in diseases including flesh-eating parasites due to civil war

The World Health Organisation has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio for 14 years in Syria, sparking renewed alarm at the collapse of health care caused by the ...

BCC aims to better position, represent women in programming

She is one of the BBC’s most senior female executives, and although this in itself wouldn’t necessarily mean that Liliane Landor is particularly concerned about...

Palestine: Halt Execution of Gaza Child Offender

Hani Abu Aliyan, imprisoned in Gaza’s central prison, faces execution.

Imposing the death penalty for a crime committed by a child makes the executions un...