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Police in Iran have arrested 29 women who were waving their headscarves to protest the country’s law making them obligatory.…

If you travel 120 km from Upper Egypt’s ancient city of Aswan, you will reach the ‘Egyptian Ladies Village’, commonly…

Shadia Bseiso certainly loves breaking norms. Not only is she a professional martial arts athlete who – literally – fought…

Four of the highest paid male BBC journalists have agreed to pay cuts, the broadcaster said on Friday, following revelations…

Activists are returning to the streets a year after a million people rallied worldwide at marches for female empowerment, hoping…

Out of 23 potential candidates competing in Egypt’s upcoming presidential election only one of them is a woman. Mona Al-Prince,…

A recent series of gruesome rapes and murders has sparked outrage in northern India. The incidents are the latest for…

“The merciful heart of the revolution,” a title given by late President Gamal Abdel Nasser to Hikmat Abu Zaid, the…

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail’s latest cabinet changes took a step towards female empowerment, with two of the four newly-appointed ministers…

Of the many American women dismayed by the wave of sexual misconduct scandals, there’s a subgroup with distinctive hopes and…