Dakota Johnson has long been celebrated for her distinctive sense of style. But recently she took things to a new level. Just ...

Though punishment for crimes against women has been denied under the Bharathiya Nyaya Samhita and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act, 1996, this government feels that there is a ...

Below are some of the prisoners who will escape capital punishment thanks to Biden: Thomas Steven Sanders kidnapped and shot twelve-year-old Lexis Roberts four times, sliced her throat, and dumped ...

The fight of Iranian women for freedom and bodily autonomy now rages on. Ahou Daryaei, a 30-year-old French language student at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University, has become the latest symbol of ...

The protests, which saw women break taboos by removing their headscarves and on occasion even burning them, subsided in the face of a crackdown that left 551 protesters dead and thousands arrested.

A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code.

Feminists and abolitionists have argued that capital punishment does not deter rape and murder. Rather, introducing the death penalty in rape law often puts victims at risk of murder. The death ...

Unlike male prisoners, women did not have their own school room. The women were self-educated in their cells from evening lockup until 9:00 p.m. School books, note pads, and pencils were issued for ...

Some of the women included on the list were elderly, and would be unlikely, given the conditions in the region’s prisons, to survive their sentences. Patihan Imin was sentenced to six years in ...

Afghan burqa-clad women sit as they wait to receive cash assistance being distributed by the World Food Program in Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital of Logar Province, on Jan. 7, 2024.