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Amnesty says Iran committed 'crimes against humanity' in protests crackdown

Middle East

Amnesty says Iran committed 'crimes against humanity' in 2022 protests crackdown

Middle East

Italy's Emma Bonino, champion of battles to legalise abortion and divorce, dies at 78

Europe
Perspective

The struggle for women to get care in Afghanistan

Paris probes why women staff removed from Eiffel Tower for Hindu visit

France

Eiffel Tower reopens after row over limits on women staff

Europe

Eiffel Tower closed in row over women removed for Hindu group

France

Eiffel Tower reopens after Hindu group apologises for 'sidelining' female staff

France

Only woman director in Venice Film Festival says industry remains unequal

Culture
The 51%

Unearthing her story: The rise of women archaeologists

France

Marine Le Pen's National Rally plans to "sanction" the wearing of the veil with a fine

France

'I am sure of myself': A look back at Dolly Parton's unspoken feminist legacy

Americas

Sophie Adenot becomes France's first female astronaut to walk in space

France

'Suffocating restrictions' shadow five years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Asia / Pacific
Focus

Faced with ageing population, Vietnam seeks to curb falling birthrate

Asia / Pacific
Focus

Pakistan's emerging DJ scene: The women behind the turntables

Culture

Players use football to champion Afghan women's rights

Afghanistan

Outrage in Libya over a video of a woman being publicly flogged for adultery

'World's largest humanitarian crisis Thirty five million Sudanese need humanitarian assistance'

Africa

Khalida Boufedeche elected as Algeria's first woman parliamentary speaker

Africa
Europe Rendezvous

Giorgia Meloni's Italy: An authoritarian drift? (Part 1)

Europe

German conservative parliamentary leader resigns over surrogate baby controversy

Europe
The 51%

The dark side of the World Cup: A rise in domestic violence

Spotlight

'A very different Afghanistan: Violence now linked to socioeconomic pressures'

Asia / Pacific

'A very different Afghanistan: Violence now linked to socioeconomic pressures'

Asia / Pacific
Focus

Maternity leave in India offers progress, with mixed results

Asia / Pacific

Benin's 'model husbands' school educates on gender relations

Africa
Reporters

Escaping Kabul: The secret operation to exfiltrate the Afghan women's cycling team

Asia / Pacific

Dozens of Afghan men protest govt crackdown on women, police accused of ‘firing shots’

Asia / Pacific

EU Taliban invite 'the wrong signal to anyone that is using power as a means of suppression'

Europe
Perspective

Writer and journalist Mursal Sayas on Afghanistan's child marriage epidemic

Asia / Pacific
Entre Nous

Salary transparency: How much do you earn?

Europe
The 51%

Is the #MeToo movement dead?

Culture
The 51%

How to fix France's declining birthrate

France

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following cardiac 'crisis'

Asia / Pacific
Focus

Life in Tehran since the ceasefire: How Iranian society is evolving

Middle East
The 51%

First female coach of top European men's football team faces backlash

Europe

Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet hopes world is 'finally ready' for a female UN chief

Americas

Irfan Nooruddin: 'Much to be gained by having more women in India's highest parliamentary body'

Asia / Pacific

France to reimburse young women for reusable menstrual products

Europe

Sudan civil war: Civilians caught in the deadly crossfire of a ruthless army-RSF power struggle

Africa

'War on women and girls' : Sexual violence the 'blueprint and strategy' of Sudan's brutal civil war

Africa

Orban ousted: What Magyar’s victory means for Hungary and the EU

Analysis
Europe
arts24

'The Last Cedar of Lebanon': A play exploring war’s lasting scars

Culture
The 51%

George Sand: The French woman writer who outsold Victor Hugo

Press Review

Clitoral nerves mapped for first time, thirty years after male counterpart

Transgender athletes barred from female category events at Olympics

Sport

Former cancer nurse Sarah Mullally to be enthroned as first woman to lead Church of England

Europe

Girl, Interrupted: Afghan girls and women shut out of education, careers, and public life

Afghanistan
The 51%

The power of giving: The role of women donors

Pelicot joins Paris march as rallies across world mark International Women's Day

In pictures
Europe
Focus

Coping with menopause at work: Germany breaks the taboo

Europe
Talking Europe

Pay gaps, bullying, violence: Challenges for women's rights in the EU

Europe
arts24

Iranian artists in exile speak out as war shakes their homeland

Culture
arts24

Exiled Iranian-French actress Mina Kavani opens Paris play as Iran crackdown sparks global protests

Culture
Entre Nous

Dating in France: A vote for love

France

Notion of women as property a 'depravity baked into law', expert says

Access Asia

French lawmakers back bill to end 'marital duty'

France

French lawmakers approve bill to end ‘marital duty’ over consent concerns

France

Sudan's women face 'world's worst' sexual violence amid brutal conflict, minister says

Africa
The 51%

The age of female rage

The 51%

Iranian women on the frontline of protests

Middle East
Entre Nous

'A very early menopause': Infertility and the struggle to get pregnant

Reporters

Egypt, from debt to prison: Women in financial difficulty face double penalty

Africa
The 51%

The relationship recession?

From science to sport: These are the stories that lifted spirits in 2025

Retrospective
France
Perspective

'When you educate a girl, everything changes': CAMFED CEO Angeline Murimirwa

Africa

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate hospitalised twice after ‘heavy’ blows, family says

Middle East
Reporters

Israeli women rush to buy guns after October 7 attacks

Middle East

Austrian parliament passes headscarf ban for schoolgirls under 14

Europe

French far-right lawmaker sparks debate with proposal to reopen brothels

France
The 51%

Arrests made in South Korea after 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' videos

Asia / Pacific