Women's Rights in the News

“Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, announcing the Final Regulations to Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination last month.

Legal landmark as Bangladeshi authorities apply new British law

Farida Nekzad says she defies the warlords who have turned her native Afghanistan into a killing field of female journalists.She faces death threats to tell teh stories of Afghan women; if she didn't, she wonders, "Who would?"

The Nobel Women’s Initiative—led by six Nobel Peace Prize winning women—reached out to world leaders today to condemn Iran’s ongoing harassment of human rights defenders in Iran.

Holy See refused to sign a UN document on the rights of the disabled because it did not condemn abortion

TEHRAN, Dec. 21 -- Iranian authorities on Sunday closed the office of the country's main human rights organization, headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.

Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

Sixty-six countries at the United Nations have called for homosexuality to be decriminalised.

TEHRAN - Police have arrested 49 people this week in a northern Iranian city during a crackdown on "satanic" clothes, IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

BAGHDAD -- The black-masked militias have vanished from most Baghdad streets, and the car bombings are down to one or two a day. So one recent afternoon, Hadeel Ahmed, a ponytailed college student in jeans, did something few Iraqi women have dared in recent years.