Join us for coverage and a round-up of events taking place to mark International Women's Day.

This year's official theme is #BalanceforBetter - but there are many unofficial events taking place too.

Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden were the only countries which scored 100 in the World Bank index, meaning they gave women and men equal legal rights.

The measure has been decried by pro-choice campaigners and opposition parties as not going far enough.

The calls came after it emerged that both platforms have hosted a Saudi Arabian government app that allowed men to track women’s activity.

The European Parliament agreed a resolution condemning the detention and torture of women activists in Saudi Arabia. Now is the time for action. The world should not turn its back on wrongfully imprisoned women like Eman Al Nafjan.

A hundred years ago, on January 19, 2019, German women were allowed to vote and be elected for the first time in history on a national level. As many as 37 of them even won seats at the national assembly.

On Sunday, the Saudi government announced they would start notifying women if their husbands filed for divorce via text message, which activists call "technological progress" rather than real progress.

Yann Moix, an award-winning French author made the comments in an interview with Marie Claire magazine.

Qatar's kefala system was widely criticised by human rights NGOs after several foreign workers died on construction sites in the country.

A woman in India was set on fire by the same men who tried to molest her just days earlier, authorities say.

The best way for Romania to move forward is to re-centre public attention to topics that are highly relevant for Romania's future, like closing the gender gap.

How surviving the perilous journey to Europe gave a young Afghan women the courage to make her voice heard.