Karachi: Karachi-based Erica Robin has done something unthinkable as she won the ‘Miss Universe Pakistan’ contest recently.
Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, a group that recently completed two-year rule in the country, have banned women from visiting Band-e-Amir National Park in the central Bamiyan province, med ...
The Miss Universe Organization has announced it terminated relations with its franchisee in Indonesia following the recent scandal over sexual harassment at the local Miss Universe pagean ...
Persistent violence in Haiti remains a significant concern for the safety and welfare of its most vulnerable citizens, especially women and children, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ...
Amid human rights outcry, Singapore authorities on Friday executed a woman for her conviction in July 2018 in a case of attempting to traffic heroin, the Central Narcotics Bur ...
New York: Access to social protection is a fundamental human right, yet a recent UN human rights report shows that numerous women and girls worldwide are still unable to access provisions ...
Women harassment in Pakistan has taken an ugly turn with the increased use of the internet. Women are being harassed through acts of online stalking, image-based abuses, doxing, cyberbull ...
New York: Low women’s empowerment and large gender gaps are commonplace in many parts of the world, the UN’s lead agencies on gender equality and international development sai ...
New York: A college professor in the USA has been removed from the USA after he allegedly asked female students to remove their shirts.
- Time to end gender-based violence, boost role of women in politics, public life
- US state abortion bans ‘putting millions of women and girls at risk’
- UN Committee seeks answers from China on poor representation of women in politics
- UN representative alarmed by sexual violence against women and girls in DRC
- Treatment of women in Tibet: CEDAW questions China
