#women’s rights

Gender equality commissioner Josie Christodolou called on the community of nations to commit to providing women unhindered access to a legal system safeguarding their rights in view of what she ...

A woman who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband won an appeal in Europe’s top human rights court, ...

Cyprus scores 94.4 out of 100 in the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law index for 2023, it emerged on Sunday. The Women, Business and the Law 2023 report assesses 190 countries laws ...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights called on Afghanistan’s Taliban administration on Friday to release a university lecturer and education activist detained by security forces in the ...

Afghan women will no longer be allowed in parks, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s morality ministry said, in part because they had not been meeting its interpretation of Islamic ...

Rights group Open Stadiums have called on FIFA to throw Iran out of the World Cup finals in Qatar in November because of the country’s treatment of women. In ...

Cyprus is among the 50 countries which signed a statement expressing concern about girls and women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. “We are deeply worried about Afghan women and girls, their ...