The International Gender Equality Prize is organized every two years by the Finnish government to recognize outstanding achievements in the fight for gender equality around the world. This year, for ...

International Women’s Day is a worldwide observance that occurs every March 8 to celebrate women and serve as a point of ...

GENEVA and NEW YORK, May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a landmark series of events affirming the rights and dignity of all individuals, stock exchanges around the world are coming together this month ...

These are arguably the most feminist and female-friendly countries on earth, where gender equality is at its highest and women can rest assured their rights and protections are top priority.

Longmont community members gathered downtown to rally for a more equitable society on this year’s International Women’s Day. On Saturday, a large crowd of people met at Sixth Avenue and Main Street in ...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will ask Congress for $2.6 billion for foreign aid programs that promote gender equality worldwide, more than double the size of last year's ...

FILE - Flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz, File) (Jennifer Peltz, Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

Collectives of mothers of missing persons set up cardboard silhouettes representing the victims of femicide in the main square Zocalo demanding justice for all femicides in Mexico prior to ...

In March 2025, UN Women—a United Nations agency that studies and tracks issues of gender equality around the world—indicated that in 2024, “almost one quarter of countries reported … backlash on ...

Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile and Co-Chair of the WBG Jobs Council, delivers remarks alongside Makhtar Diop, IFC Managing Director. “We don't want any gift. We just want to have the ...

The Council is calling for targeted efforts to advance gender equality in the digital age, with a focus on the risks and opportunities presented by AI. In today’s conclusions, the Council proposes ...