The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law report provides a comprehensive global assessment of how laws, policies, and ...

A World Bank brief reveals that most global legal systems fail to protect the rights of women with disabilities in family ...

International law and human rights in the Americas: the perspective of lawyer Viviana Krsticevic, who will receive the ...

LONDON -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.

Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that "the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality ...

Recent months have seen several reports of funding cuts and visa withdrawals leaving Afghan women at risk of deportation to ...

The Taliban's morality police -- some 3,300 officers vested by the regime to enforce its so-called "Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice" laws -- routinely detain Afghans for having the wrong ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded ...

The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied.

APC's Carla Vitoria speaking at Human Rights Council side event on the protection of human rights defenders against new and ...