Women's Issues

By Ece Toksabay and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Thousands of people took to the streets of Turkey's largest cities on...

By Daphne Psaledakis and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An annual U.S. State Department report released on Thursday said discriminatory...

PARIS (Reuters) - Women deprived of freedom of speech or the freedom to vote should fight for their rights and...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's withdrawal on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women is not a step...

By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Mexico's Hidalgo state on Wednesday voted to lift the penalties...

By Alberto Fajardo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Maria Garcia and Salma Luevano will in September become the first two trans...

By Rami Ayyub and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Pressure is mounting on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive is considering legal action against Poland over "LGBT-free" zones set up by some...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - After a South Korean air force master sergeant accused a colleague of sex abuse...

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's authorities on Tuesday found the body of a woman who had...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. investigator on human rights in Iran has called for an independent inquiry...

By Nathan Allen and Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) -The Spanish government on Tuesday approved the draft of a bill to...

(Reuters) - Fitch Ratings said on Monday that China's three-child policy is unlikely to aid slow population growth and that...

LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has released two women's rights activists detained nearly three years ago after they had served...