Women's Rights

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out against transgender-identifying biological men being allowed to use women’s facilities, and admitted that she would “freak out” if she saw a naked man in the women’s facilities.

The Taliban junta in Afghanistan on Thursday condemned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for denouncing its brutish treatment of women, claiming Guterres lacks the required credentials in Islamic sharia law to comment on the Taliban’s conduct.

The family of Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman whose death at the hands of Iran’s thuggish “morality police” drew worldwide condemnation and touched off the biggest uprising against the regime to date, said on Tuesday that the regime is preventing them from holding a memorial to mark the third anniversary of her passing.

The UK Guardian on Wednesday published a report about hundreds of young Saudi Arabian women being held in secretive facilities – variously described as “care homes,” “jails,” “shelters,” and “prisons” – where they face brutal punishment for disobeying their husbands or male family members.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has called for a hearing with USA Fencing after a female athlete faced repercussions.

The head of the women’s wing of a secularist opposition party in India suggested in commemoration of International Women’s Day that the country should offer impunity to all women for one murder in response to the widespread rape of girls and women in the country.

The Taliban junta on Thursday announced it has withdrawn Afghanistan from the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court (ICC), and no longer recognizes the jurisdiction of the ICC.

A senior Taliban terrorist reportedly fled Afghanistan this week after a recent speech in which he defended women’s rights and insisted that Islamic sharia law does not mandate the abuse of women.

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan announced on Thursday that he had formally requested arrest warrants for two senior members of the Taliban terrorist organization running Afghanistan.

The Taliban terrorist organization running Afghanistan published a decree this weekend banning buildings from having windows overlooking places “used by women,” a measure to protect Afghans from potentially seeing a woman inside her own home.

Hundreds of people convened in the heart of Damascus on Thursday demanding the regime replacing ousted longtime dictator Bashar Assad respect women and the basic civil rights of all.

UK Supreme Court began hearing a legal challenge focusing on the definition of “woman” in a case brought by a women´s rights group.

The Taliban jihadist organization governing Afghanistan applauded itself on Monday for its “achievements” in women’s rights, claiming to prevent child marriages and punish domestic abusers.

Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) is up for reelection in a highly contested swing seat against Republican opponent Jerry Evans, and it seems Foster’s top campaign issue of women’s rights makes him a hypocrite, Republicans say.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released photos of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) preparing for its overnight mission attacking Iran’s missile sites and air defenses — and the photos included several female pilots and crew members.

Sen. JD Vance used his time in the vice presidential debate to showcase Donald Trump’s plan to revive the American Dream for ordinary Americans.

The Taliban announced that U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett has been banned from entering the country.

Nationwide protests in India attracted thousands in support of doctors striking to protest rampant violence against them on Tuesday and into Wednesday, when the nation marked its Independence Day.

The Taliban on Wednesday celebrated the three-year anniversary of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal that gave them power in Afghanistan, more secure in power than ever despite constant complaints from the international community about their appalling human rights offenses.

Britain’s incoming left-wing government has appointed a new minister for women who apparently isn’t sure what a woman even is. 

The United Nations invited the jihadist Taliban terrorist organization to a two-day conference on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, next weekend, its third such meeting since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

Melinda French Gates is dumping $1 billion into women’s organizations, including groups that promote killing unborn babies via abortion.

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.N. was elected chair of the Commission on the Status of Women despite the kingdom’s abysmal record.

Utah Republicans sent a transgender bathroom bill to Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Friday after much back and forth over the details of the legislation.

The government in Wales is reportedly preparing to legally recognise biological male transgender people as “women”.

A woman’s rights activist in Iran who organized protest actions from within Iran’s notorious Evin prison, Narges Mohammadi, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Iranian media reported on Monday that the Mojhaye Khoroushan water park, one of the largest indoor water parks in the world, has been shut down because too many women were allowed to enter without wearing mandatory Islamic head coverings.

The sorority sisters will now be forced to accommodate Artemis Langford, a 6’2″, 260-pound man who believes he is a woman.

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice banned women from Band-e-Amir National Park this weekend – one of Afghanistan’s largest and most beautiful parks – on the grounds that some women had worn hijab inappropriately and that “sightseeing is not a must for women.”

Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue spokesman Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif explained on Thursday that his extremist regime forces women to cover their faces because the “value” of a woman “decreases” when men look at her.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says he is “prepared to put a hold on funding” for Afghanistan due to Taliban theft.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday that Afghan journalism is “still resisting after two years of Taliban persecution,” but that resistance is sadly muted.

Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration has failed to shake the Taliban’s iron grip on Afghanistan.

Girls in Afghanistan are bypassing the fanatical Taliban’s cruel ban on education for young women by attending secret schools, some of them run by female teachers — an occupation the Taliban also banned after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal two years ago.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a “Women’s Bill of Rights” into law on Tuesday, an executive order that defines sex-based words like “female,” “woman,” and “mother” and protects women-only spaces.