A group of 43 women dressed to depict “La Llorona” or “The Weeping Woman” took part in a street theatre performance in Mexico City on Saturday, designed to act as a poignant reminder of a tragic…

The country's lower house has passed a bill decriminalising some forms of domestic violence. It will make battery of a relative a civil and not criminal offence when the victim suffered no serious har

The Russian parliament’s lower house the Duma has overwhelming backed a draft law that would ease some penalties for domestic violence.

The German government has approved new legislation that will force companies to be more transparent about salaries paid to male and female employees.

The new police unit are looking for six perpetrators of non-European appearance in relation to the New Year's Eve attacks against 18 women.

Authorities in Berlin say they have arrested the man suspected of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs in an underground station in the German capital.

A spokesman for the governor of Kandahar says the women were in charge of searching female travellers at Kandahar airport.

The UN is kicking off two weeks of actions to raise awareness of the large-scale cost to societies of psychological, physical and sexual violence against women and…

Turkey’s governing AK Party is withdrawing a controversial bill on underage marriage.

Opposition and rights groups have said the legislation could allow men accused of sexually abusing girls to avoid punishment.

Mukhtaran Mai dedicated campaigner for women's rights

As Iraqi forces close in on the militant-held city of Mosul, a support centre for women and girls in Dahuk is gearing up to receive women and girls who have been held captive and sexually…

MEPs have decided that two Yazidi women are the winners of the EU’s annual human rights prize.

The horror of life in the clutches of ISIL has been described by a 12-year-old girl, one of a group of Eritrean female captives of the extremists to have been freed by pro-government forces in…