Women's Rights

Saudi Arabia passed a new law allowing women over the age of 21 to travel abroad without a male guardian’s permission, the Sunni kingdom announced this week.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind signed into law Wednesday a bill banning the Muslim practice of “triple talaq” divorce, which permitted men to divorce their wives simply by repeating the word “talaq” (divorce) three times.

Nike is one again wading into political waters with its latest ad campaign celebrating the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s World Cup victory, with an ad touting “equal rights” and smashing “glass ceilings.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized Ivanka Trump on Twitter Saturday after video emerged of her conversing with world leaders at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has long been a supporter of leftwing causes important to women, including favoring abortion on demand and opposing the Hyde Amendment that prevents taxpayer funding for the procedure.

A Labour peer and former MP who campaigns for women’s rights has quit the party after he was suspended for sharing an “unacceptable” tweet branded “transphobic” by activists.

All but seven House Democrats voted Friday for a bill which ends legal and civic rights for women by allowing men who say they are transgender to freely use women’s legal rights, sports leagues, institutions, and private spaces.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia launched a crackdown on supporters of two American, one of them pregnant, and nine other local women activists who drew the ire of the Sunni kingdom for fighting for their right to drive and to end the country’s male guardianship system, several news outlets reported Friday.

The head coach for Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team says there aren’t nearly enough women in positions of power, and she’s not just talking about basketball.

Three Saudi women were granted temporary release from prison on Thursday, nearly a year after they and other women’s rights activists were detained by security forces who report to the kingdom’s powerful crown prince.

House Democrats introduced the Equality Act last week, a measure that would ensure gender ideology — i.e., transgender bathrooms, forced preferred pronoun use, and biological men playing women’s sports, etc. — is cemented into federal law.

Saudi Arabia began the trial of women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul on Wednesday, with a prison sentence of up to 20 years reportedly on the line, at the same time Iran was throwing human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in prison for 38 years plus a savage whipping.

President Donald Trump delivered a proclamation Friday on the 199th birthday of Susan B. Anthony – a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and advocate for the human rights of all – born and unborn.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote an open letter to Google and Apple, Monday, demanding that the Big Tech Masters of the Universe stop hosting a Saudi Arabian app which allows men to track women’s movements and stop them from leaving the country.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he would “take a look” at a Saudi Arabian app being hosted by Apple on the App Store, which allows men to track women’s movements and stop them from escaping the country.

Apple and Google are facing criticism for hosting a Saudi Arabian smartphone app on their platforms which allows men to track women’s movements and “stop them leaving the country.”

Kenyan author and actress Kingwa Kamencu renewed presidential ambitions by launching a new political party known as the “Kenya Sex Party,” local media reported Tuesday.

Abortion lobbying giant NARAL is launching a $1 million ad campaign intending to take down key House Republicans after the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The left-wing activists behind the anti-Trump Women’s March staged after President Donald Trump’s 2016 election are part of the effort to protest Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, where Kavanaugh serves as a federal judge.

Amazon has acquired the rights to a feature film produced by Nicole Kidman about a woman groped at a frat party who later becomes a female right’s activist, Variety first reported.

Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) said “lives are at stake” if Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed.

Saudi Arabia is seeking the death penalty against a female rights activist alongside four other prominent human rights campaigners, according to a Wednesday report. 

Iran’s soccer team is celebrating its second ever World Cup win, even if the 1-0 victory came after an own goal by Morocco.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said in an interview that President Donald Trump’s decision to prevent Title X family planning funding from going to abortion providers could prevent women from getting an education or having a career.

Saudi Arabia’s reform program continued on Monday with a statement from the Information Ministry that women will now be allowed to retain custody of their children after a divorce.

Huffington Post senior reporter Emily Peck says the “constitution gives gun owners greater rights than women.”

TEL AVIV – Hamas banned a new TV station for women from being launched on Sunday, prompting outcry that the Gaza-ruling terror group is “oppressive.”

A crazed New York City subway passenger jumped onto the tracks and threatened to kill himself this week in the name of “social justice.”

A former abortionist turned pro-life advocate told a House subcommittee that American young women have been conditioned to believe nothing should interfere with their right to control their reproductive organs.

Saudi Arabia became the first country to grant a robot citizenship this week, prompting critics to note the robot may have more rights than women in the country.