Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian right, Ontario’s premier scrapped modern sex education.

When Zimbabweans took to the streets in January, women were met with sexual violence by security forces. Many are scared to report abuses.

These issues have received increased global attention. But simple attacks on ‘tradition and culture’ just fuel the backlash to women’s rights.

New reports of mass arrests, torture and murder of LGBT people in Chechnya remind us that accountability is tragically lacking in this Russian republic.

Women workers in the country’s 'footwear capital' say they have endured too many years of job insecurity and wage theft.

At a camp mixing extreme sports and extreme rhetoric, I saw how they’re training teenagers to join their fight against reproductive rights. Español

From Germany to India, these campaigners are battling ‘toxic masculinity’ to engage men in fights for gender equality.

A century after some UK women won the vote, most of the suffragette stories we hear still focus on the elite. But this was a diverse movement.

100 years since (some) women won the right to vote, they’re still marginalised in corridors of our power – and facing a backlash there too.

A "nefarious" bill on ‘life and family’ is the first-ever drafted by the country's evangelical churches, reflecting their growth – and ambition. Español

As Armenia votes in a new parliament after the revolution earlier this year, it seems the new authorities’ political opponents are uniting in an anti-LGBT campaign.

Centuries of entrenched patriarchy cannot be upturned in a month. But this country finally looks ready for a feminist overhaul.

Congolese activist Julienne Lusenge talks about the struggle to end wartime sexual violence and why she appreciates the MeToo campaign.

Winner of the Council of Europe’s 2018 Democracy Innovation Award talks about training women to represent themselves in Kenyan courts.

After World Forum for Democracy talks about creating safe spaces in cyberspace, we asked five delegates this difficult and pressing question.

Women's rights debates take centre stage at this year's World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Social media propaganda. Data-mining. Foreign interference in Ireland's abortion referendum. The backlash against our rights goes online.