On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who was Black, refused to give up her seat on a bus for a White passenger in Montgomery, Alabama ...

Japan’s Mone Chiba has emerged as the surprise leader in the women’s short program at the figure skating Grand Prix Final ...

Decades of protest show Iranians are pushing for non-violent democratic change—and the world’s solidarity could help make it ...

What makes their dissent powerful isn’t just fame — it’s conviction. Many of these stars have criticized Trump for years, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door ...

The G20’s Women 20 group agreed that action is needed to stop unpaid care work and forced labour, and improve women’s health ...

Hilda Macheso, a Malawian disability rights advocate, is the 2025 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship ...

Prominent women’s rights advocate and journalist Veronica Songor-Johnson, has officially declared her intention to contest ...

Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist, born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She became known as the “mother of ...

The number of women's colleges has decreased, but Massachusetts is home to some of the most successful survivors, which have ...

TOKYO — As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality. But she has quickly run up against a tradition that may be ...