The widespread abuse and exploitation of women are not confined to a particular area; it is happening across the world, endangering women’s daily lives and gravely shaking their identity and dignity.

Taxi companies built by women are improving their safety. And fences made of beehives are keeping farmers safer from ...

Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.

A book about farmer suicides and women farmers in rural distress was the highlight at the ongoing World Book Fair in the ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women ...

It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a ...

Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It's practised in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts ...

Air pollution is linked to the daily deaths of over 100 children under five in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a ...