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Gender inequality fuelling ‘Great Resignation’ of women health workers across the world
Mass exodus has escalated into a ‘moral emergency’ in wake of the pandemic, according to new report
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‘The Taliban sends me daily death threats – I fear for women who couldn’t escape’
Torture and imprisonment of women has become a widespread tool of persecution, says Zarifa Ghafari, a former Afghan mayor
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Why South Korea’s cosmetic surgery empire is both a source of pride and pain
Questions are being asked of the country’s difficult relationship with beauty ideals as it looks to further grow its surgery industry
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Iran’s ‘morality police’ use CCTV to target one million women for not wearing headscarves
'Morality policing in Iran is back' after mass surveillance is deployed to crack down on women
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Female genital mutilation linked to Red Sea slave trade route
Women taken from Africa and sold as concubines in the Middle East were ‘stitched’ as a sign of chastity to increase their market value
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Changing attitudes is an important first step towards eradicating FGM, but it isn’t enough
Breaking the cycle of this extreme form of violence against girls will also take money
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From FGM to child marriage, we must remove all the barriers to girls' education
Enabling a girl to go to school has a huge impact - that's why the UK and Kenya are urging countries to fund education globally
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Tackling Egypt’s FGM problem means cracking down on doctors who mutilate girls
Female circumcision won’t end until the health professionals who carry out the procedure are held to account
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Women trapped with abusers because of cost of living crisis
Women's refuges are struggling to stay open amid spiralling energy bills
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Long-term impact of pandemic will be felt for 'decades', warns Red Cross
Women, migrants and people living in cities have been hardest hit by economic and social toll of Covid
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Hyper masculinity, power and patriarchy: why some men abuse women
One in three women experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes. Can working out why help tackle the scourge?
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Violence against women ‘devastatingly pervasive’ as world’s largest study reveals 1 in 3 endure abuse
Gender-based violence is a ‘a global public health problem of pandemic proportions’, the WHO report found, affecting 736 million women
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China cracks down on ‘bride prices’ to boost birth rates
Officials introduce a raft of policies to usher in a ‘new era’ of marriage and childbearing
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Sexual violence on a ‘catastrophic scale’: 48 victims a day report attacks in DRC
Vast majority of victims attacked while searching for food or firewood outside displacement camps
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One million babies die a year after being born too soon – but no progress has been made in a decade
Preterm birth is now the leading cause of child deaths globally, accounting for nearly one in five of under-five deaths
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An end to child marriage is still 200 years away in some countries
Rapid population growth and global crises undermine efforts to end the practice, report warns
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Escalating violence in Sudan puts 219,000 pregnant women at risk
UN warns hospitals have become targets of attacks from warring factions, and medical supplies looted
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Women and girls caught in population crossfire, warns UN report
Report finds population anxieties are widespread, with two-thirds of people living in low-fertility contexts
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There has been a dramatic reduction in Indian women working – here’s why
India’s economic boon is being hampered by a failure to create formal employment opportunities for its women
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Millions of women are still at risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth
We have the means to make pregnancy and childbirth safe – so why so many needless deaths?
