Spanish police said Sunday they dismantled a human trafficking ring they said had exploited more than 1,000 women in the past year, mainly Colombians and Venezuelans. "The victims, mainly of South ...

Around the world, deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth are needlessly high, and women are prevented from making deeply personal choices in their private lives. Human Rights Watch is working ...

The women’s rights Convention is the fundamental bill of rights for women. It is unique among the existing human rights instruments in that it is exclusively concerned with promoting and ...

Fifty years after the Universal Declaration on Human Rights promised respect for human rights to all people, women’s human rights activists have forced governments to acknowledge the pervasive ...

Experts say this psychological phenomenon is a result of us humans preferring pets, people or even objects that resemble ourselves.

Over time, women can change the evolutionary definition ... of the females.So one of the things that had to happen in human evolution was to solve the infanticide problem. Human females have ...

Ancient Egyptians rubbed their bald heads with a mixture of dates, dog's paw and donkey's hoof; Celtic cures involved mice in ...

The search in Manitoba uncovered possible human remains from two victims of a serial killer, a devastating case that spotlighted an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in Canada.

States parties agree to take all appropriate measures, including legislation and temporary special measures, so that women can enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Convention ...

After years of languishing in the bottom ten, Saudi Arabia has been inching up the ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Index, now coming 126th out of 146 countries in the 2024 report.

She also said the search is a matter of "human dignity," affirming that when Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people go missing, they are looked for. "We do not let their final ...

a psychologist and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University. Women also tend to practice more “health-promoting behavior,” like wearing a ...