Women's Rights

Iranian women walk past a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and paintings of Persian poetry in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 7, 2018.
Iran’s hijab protesters not cowed by crackdown
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A man watches Tunisian women working in a pea field on December 20, 2018 in Tunisia's northwestern province of Jendouba, about 185 kilometres west of the capital Tunis.
Tunisia inheritance law offers women a rare boost
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More than 50 percent of South Sudanese girls are wed before their 18th birthday.
Activists raise alarm on Facebook auction of South Sudan child bride
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A co-ed Libyan theatre group perform on stage in Tripoli, Libya October 17, 2018.
Show must go on for Libya's threatened actresses
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A woman shields her child from the wind while walking on sand dunes near Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Mauritanian women fight to end victim blaming
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Moroccan teen in gang-rape case urges others to be brave
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Football team scores for gender equality in Somalia
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Al Azhar says sexual harassment is always 'forbidden'
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Lawyer says sentence for Iran rights advocate unlawful
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Sudanese activist says she will persevere despite legal woes
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Somali campaigners call for criminalisation of FGM
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Saudi female designer makes modern abayas
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Saudi Arabia's jailed activists accused of treason
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Saudi Arabia's women ready to steer themselves
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Iran re-arrests prominent human rights lawyer
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Qatar Airways boss says remarks on women CEOs were 'joke'
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