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Women's Forum 2025 in French capital highlights violence in sport

Leaders and athletes are pushing for recognition, safety and empowerment at the 20th edition of the event in Paris.

Euronews

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A win for Kenyan schoolgirls with babies

Learning and childcare go hand in hand at a pioneering school in southern Kenya. Its core focus is the education of pregnant teens and young mothers.

DW News

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Latvia considers quitting Istanbul convention

Latvia will have to uphold protection rules for women even if it quits the Istanbul Convention in a divisive move seen as backtracking on fundamental rights.

Euronews

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Zimbabwe girls use ancient Nhanga to combat child marriage

Women and girls in rural Zimbabwe are reviving Nhanga, an ancient custom traditionally used to prepare girls to marriage, and transforming it into a forum to promote gender equality.

Africanews

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China's Xi Jinping urges greater role for women in governance

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for greater female representation in politics and government, emphasizing the need to "internalize" gender equality across all levels of society.

Africanews

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Taliban restrictions spark women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan

The UN warns that Taliban policies have created the world’s worst women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan. Women face severe limitations in work, business, and public life, with bans on exhibitions and fashion shows further restricting oppo...

Al Jazeera

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The state of abortion rights across the EU

Despite 15 countries having taken steps towards more comprehensively allowing abortion since 2021, only five EU countries have gone ahead with full decriminalisation.

Euronews

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UN Security Council reflects on 25 years of women, peace

The UN Security Council held its annual meeting on women, peace, and security, marking 25 years since the agenda’s adoption. Discussions highlighted both achievements and ongoing challenges in promoting gender equality and protecting wom...

Al Jazeera

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Gisele Pelicot returns to court for appeal trial in mass rape case

Gisele Pelicot returned to court on Monday (October 6) to face the only man, out of 51, who appealed his guilty verdict in a mass rape trial that shocked France and attracted worldwide attention last year.

Reuters

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Amazon keeps 'wife beater' undershirt label despite complaints

Despite a ruling by Ad Standards Canada that the term 'wife beater,' used to describe a type of men's undershirt, violates the country's advertising code, ads on Amazon's Canadian website still feature the term. Some women's rights advoc...

CBC News

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Pope Leo XIV weighs in on abortion debate

The US-born pontiff highlighted flaws within the conservative "pro-life" movement, which seeks to ban abortions across the US, asserting that being truly pro-life also includes having an anti-capital punishment stance.

Euronews

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Abortion access in Kenya continues to be hotly debated, amid deaths

In Kenya, abortion is only legal in certain circumstances, such as when a woman’s life or health is at risk. With limited access to legal abortion services, many women are forced to seek unsafe procedures outside the healthcare system.

Africanews

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Denmark apologizes for abuse of Greenlandic indigenous women

In the 1960s and '70s, Danish doctors fitted Greenlandic women with contraceptives in a campaign allegedly aimed at curbing population growth in the former colony. One Inuit woman told DW that the trauma of forced birth control as a teen...

DW News

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Dalit women in India fight caste discrimination with farming

In rural Tamil Nadu, an initiative of Dalit women are turning wasteland into not just crops, but a movement against social exclusion in India.

DW News

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Nigerian women push for more female representation

Hundreds of women have protested in the Nigerian capital to push for a bill that would add women-only seats in the Senate and House of Representatives. Thus far, Africa's most populous nation barely has any women lawmakers.

DW News

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Doctor reacts to Trump's announcement about Tylenol and autism

President Trump on Monday told pregnant women to avoid Tylenol, linking the drug to autism despite criticism from medical experts. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder shares her thoughts on the announcement.

CBS America

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Iran: Third anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini

This week marks the third anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini which sparked the youth-led Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran. In the face of injustice, Iranians across generations, especially women and minorities, rose up in a pea...

France 24

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Iranian women ride motorbikes in defiance of Islamic rules

Women across Iran are increasingly turning to motorcycles as their mode of transportation, despite many being denied licenses. In doing so, they're challenging strict norms in the Islamic Republic.

Reuters

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Iran's nomad community: Women struggle for sanitation

In Iran's remote plains and mountains, nomadic women endure life without access to proper toilets and clean water. Despite being vital to Iran's economy, these nomads face a daily struggle for basic sanitation and hygiene.

DW News

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Behind the steep decline in young mothers leaving the workforce

For six years, Mackenzie Bruegge worked in medical billing. But with two young children at home, she says the math just didn't add up. Her decision to quit reflects a national trend.

CBS America

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Petition to make access to abortion easier in Europe

With over 1 million signatures, the European citizens' initiative "My Voice, My Choice" submitted its request to the European Commission on Monday to set up a funding mechanism to make abortion more accessible.

Euronews

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Tunisia's Women’s Day parade celebrates the traditional sefsari tunic

Women’s Day marks the anniversary of the 1956 adoption of the Personal Status Code which granted women equal rights.

Africanews

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New Texas bill would allow lawsuits over shipping abortion pills

A new bill proposed by Texas Republican lawmakers would allow lawsuits over the shipment of abortion pills. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson has more details.

CBS America

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Fewer mothers with young children in the workforce, report finds

The share of working mothers between the ages of 25-44 has dropped 3% so far this year, according to a new report from the University of Kansas. Professor Misty Heggeness, who analyzed the data and is the author of the upcoming book, "Sw...

CBS America

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Cherie Blair and Helle Thorning-Schmidt discuss AI and gender equality

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former prime minister of Denmark and co-chair of the Oversight Board, and Cherie Blair CBE KC, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, discuss how to advance gender equality.

CNBC

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NY doctor charged in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pills

Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who legally practices in New York, is fighting extradition after Louisiana officials charged her for mailing abortion pills. As restrictive state laws clash with legal protections, Gov. Kathy Hochul vows to defend...

CBS News

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HRW: Israel endangered pregnant, postpartum women and girls

Belkis Wille, the Associate Crisis, Conflict and Arms Director for Human Rights Watch (HRW), talks about her group’s latest report, which accuses Israel of inflicting “serious and sometimes life-threatening danger” on pregnant and postpa...

CNN

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Women's rights groups slam 'lenient' sentences for co-defendants

Dozens of defendants in the Pelicot trial -- the men who visited the Pelicot family home to rape Gisele Pelicot who was unconscious after being drugged by her husband -- were handed terms of between three and fifteen years. Women's right...

France 24

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Hateful rhetoric toward women surges on social media

Sexist and abusive rhetoric towards women, such as “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen,” have surged across social media since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

CNN

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Trial starts over rape, murder of junior doctor in India's Kolkata

A police volunteer went on trial in India's West Bengal on Monday accused of raping and murdering a doctor at a government hospital in August, a case that has sparked outrage over the lack of safety for women in India.

Reuters