LONDON — Israa al-Ghomgham, reportedly the first female human rights activist to face a possible death penalty for non-violent protest in Saudi Arabia, is due to appear in the country’s secretive anti ...

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s first female president, came to power as a renowned defender of human rights. She is clinging to it, critics say, by locking up and torturing those who stand in her way ...

Since the founding of the Blue Diamond Society in 2001 and a groundbreaking victory for fundamental rights at the Supreme Court in 2007, Nepal has been recognized globally for advances for lesbian, ...

The fight for women’s right to vote in elections is known as the ‘suffragette movement’. By the end of the 19th century, this had become a worldwide movement, and the words ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist ...

The wife of the Kwara Governor, Prof. Olufolake AbdulRazaq, has described Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a human rights violation that must be stopped. AbdulRazaq stated this while in Ilorin on ...

"Sudanese security officials often take advantage of discriminatory laws and social conventions to silence them," he added, speaking at the launch of HRW's report "Good Girls Don't Protest". Sudanese ...

AOC backs new rules but accepts issue is ‘challenging and complex’ Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups have criticised the International Olympic Committee’s new gender eligibility ...