Gender Rights

The Taliban government's morality police said it would not cooperate with the United Nation's mission in Afghanistan, calling it "an opposing side".

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forces.

"Harry Potter" author JK Rowling has revealed she regrets not speaking out "far sooner" with her views on transgender rights, in a book essay extract published Wednesday.

A transgender politician from Russia said on Thursday that he had reverted to his gender assigned at birth, in an unusual message amid a crackdown on LGBTQ rights in the country.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Saturday criticised the UN Security Council's plan for a special envoy to promote gender and human rights in the country as "unnecessary".

Explaining why law needs to address gender inequality that persists within households, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said privacy cannot be a "cloak for infringement of rights".

A small number of countries have made it easier for transgender people to change their legal gender, while other nations have restricted such changes, notably Russia and Pakistan

Annually observed on October 11, International Day of the Girl Child serves as a platform to advocate for girl empowerment.

During his closing speech at the 2023 Conservative Party conference on October 4, he shared his stance on gender debate and said, "A man is a man and a woman is a woman".

Dr Geeta Rao Gupta, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues is visiting India and meet her Indian counterparts with an aim to highlight and advance Biden administration's gender quality policy priorities in region and around the world.

The decision of a former West Bengal chief minister's daughter to go in for the medical and legal process for gender affirmation after identifying as a man for years has come as a shot in the arm for others like him in the state.

Despite the growing awareness of gender equality and women's rights, the pleasure gap continues to exist

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a status report on the work done for providing healthcare rights and toilet facilities for the third gender.

Inequities in other areas of the workforce, such as artificial intelligence, where just one out of every five employees is a woman, were also criticised by Guterres.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Kerala High Court order directing a woman to go for "gender sensitisation counselling" after her lesbian partner alleged that the former was being illegally detained by her parents for having a relationship.

The Taliban government's morality police said it would not cooperate with the United Nation's mission in Afghanistan, calling it "an opposing side".

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forces.

"Harry Potter" author JK Rowling has revealed she regrets not speaking out "far sooner" with her views on transgender rights, in a book essay extract published Wednesday.

A transgender politician from Russia said on Thursday that he had reverted to his gender assigned at birth, in an unusual message amid a crackdown on LGBTQ rights in the country.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Saturday criticised the UN Security Council's plan for a special envoy to promote gender and human rights in the country as "unnecessary".

Explaining why law needs to address gender inequality that persists within households, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said privacy cannot be a "cloak for infringement of rights".

A small number of countries have made it easier for transgender people to change their legal gender, while other nations have restricted such changes, notably Russia and Pakistan

Annually observed on October 11, International Day of the Girl Child serves as a platform to advocate for girl empowerment.

During his closing speech at the 2023 Conservative Party conference on October 4, he shared his stance on gender debate and said, "A man is a man and a woman is a woman".

Dr Geeta Rao Gupta, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues is visiting India and meet her Indian counterparts with an aim to highlight and advance Biden administration's gender quality policy priorities in region and around the world.

The decision of a former West Bengal chief minister's daughter to go in for the medical and legal process for gender affirmation after identifying as a man for years has come as a shot in the arm for others like him in the state.

Despite the growing awareness of gender equality and women's rights, the pleasure gap continues to exist

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a status report on the work done for providing healthcare rights and toilet facilities for the third gender.

Inequities in other areas of the workforce, such as artificial intelligence, where just one out of every five employees is a woman, were also criticised by Guterres.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Kerala High Court order directing a woman to go for "gender sensitisation counselling" after her lesbian partner alleged that the former was being illegally detained by her parents for having a relationship.