Since January, millions of people have taken to the streets across France in protest at the government’s pension reform plans. Women have been unmissable and… Read More »Women and retirement in France: A lifetime of inequality
Greece faces a fresh round of mass strikes and nationwide protests on Wednesday as anger mounts over the country’s worst rail tragedy that killed 57… Read More »Greece faces fresh strikes, nationwide protests over deadly train crash
Police in the ex-Soviet state of Georgia used tear gas and stun grenades early on Wednesday to break up a protest outside Parliament against a draft law… Read More »Thousands protest in Tbilisi against controversial Georgian ‘foreign agents’ law
Pictures taken from above the continent show how the landscape is transformed by human activity.
Cyclone Freddy first struck south-east Africa last month, killing 21 people and displacing thousands.
Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least six Palestinian gunmen, including a Hamas gunman… Read More »Israeli forces kill six Palestinians in raid on West Bank refugee camp
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a critical annual moment for us to steer progress on the global rights of women and… Read More »Speech: Raising the curtain on the Generation Equality Midpoint Event
Huge crowds marched across France on Tuesday in a sixth round of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age, signalling continued… Read More »‘We can defeat Macron’: Why women’s anger is fuelling French pension protests
A British draft law unveiled Tuesday aimed at stopping migrants entering illegally on small boats will amount to an asylum ban, the UN warned, calling… Read More »UK draft law amounts to ‘an asylum ban’, UN says
Women and girls have just as much right to access the digital world and prosper in it as men and boys. Their creativity, knowledge and… Read More »Statement: Defiant and steadfast for full equality in the digital world
