Lifestyle Feb 10, 2019
Mom-friendly tomato farm bears more than just fruit
by Maya Kaneko
Drop Inc., a startup cherry tomato farming business in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, finds hiring mothers on flexible hours benefits business.
World Jan 2, 2019
Britain is charging young women rescued from forced marriages abroad for the cost of their repatriation, The Times newspaper revealed Wednesday. Four British women who were liberated from a punishment institution in Somalia were each charged £740 ($940), the daily said. Victims are told they have ...
World Mar 7, 2018
Bus 'conscience convoy' of 2,000 women heads to Syria to press for rights awareness
An international group of 2,000 women set off from Istanbul on Tuesday for Turkey's border with Syria, part of a "conscience convoy" to raise awareness of the plight of Syrian women after seven years of civil war. The convoy of buses is expected to reach ...
World / Social Issues Mar 1, 2018
Meghan Markle hopes to 'shine a light' on women's rights as British royal
Meghan Markle, the actress fiancee of Britain's Prince Harry, said on Wednesday that the time was never better to focus on women's rights as she takes up her work with royal charities. Markle, 36, was speaking alongside Harry and his elder brother, William, and wife, ...
Commentary / World Aug 29, 2017
Islamic dress codes and liberal democracy
by Ramesh Thakur
Branding calls to ban the burqa as Islamophobic is an illiberal attempt to shut down legitimate public policy debate.
Asia Pacific / Politics May 26, 2016
Philippine commission says Duterte's rape joke violated law on women's rights, is told to shut up
The Philippine Commission on Human Rights said Wednesday the country's presumptive president-elect violated a law protecting women's rights by making a rape joke during the election campaign. The commission said in a statement on its website that it found the "words and actions" of Mayor ...
Editorials Dec 18, 2015
The electoral victories of women across Saudi Arabia show that there will be even more pressure for change in the future.
World / Politics Sep 28, 2015
A Chinese government official said Monday that Hillary Clinton was "biased" on women's issues in China, while a newspaper compared the presidential hopeful to Donald Trump for her tweet saying it was "shameless" for China's president to preside over a U.N. conference on gender ...
World / Social Issues Sep 28, 2015
At U.N., Xi boasts women's rights but critics quick to note China's jailing of female activists
China's President Xi Jinping told the United Nations on Sunday that all Chinese women have the opportunity to excel, touting his government's record on women's rights as the United States slammed Beijing and others for jailing women for their views. China and U.N. Secretary-General Ban ...
Asia Pacific / Social Issues Apr 14, 2015
Chinese authorities released five women's rights campaigners Monday whose detentions sparked an international outcry and underscored the government's tight restrictions on independent social activism, lawyers said. Lawyer Liang Xiaojun said the five were let go after more than a month in detention under a form ...
National Sep 16, 2014
Yemeni journalist devoted to bringing democracy, women's rights to her country
by Mizuho Aoki
Japan is an ideal model for countries racked by conflict and poverty because of how it resurrected itself from the devastation of war and achieved peace, the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize says. "For us, Japan is the model that we ...
