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Women continue to perform up to 5 times more care work than men: UN official
At the UN Ministerial Conference in Bangkok, officials highlighted the slow progress of women's emp…
PTI
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India, EU to host conference to discuss current and emerging threats in online radicalisation
The two-day EU-India Track 1.5 Conference in New Delhi will bring together experts, policymakers, a…
ANI
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Oil titan Sultan Al Jaber backtracks on comments that 'there is no science' around fossil fuels at UN climate summit
Sultan Al Jaber, president of COP28 and CEO of the United Arab Emirates state-owned oil company Adn…
Catherine Boudreau
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The world's most powerful men want women to have more babies
In the past two months, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping have all asked women to go fort…
Cheryl Teh
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Women in Iceland want you to know it's not a gender equality utopia, despite what the statistics say
Iceland has topped the WEF's gender gap index 14 years in a row. But women living there say the ran…
Grace Dean
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India beats China to win crucial election to UN commission on women
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a functional commission of the UN Economic and Socia…
PTI
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How Diageo is knocking unconscious gender biases out of its advertising
Julie Bramham, Chief Marketing Officer, Diageo India talks about all that the brand is doing to rem…
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A new Taliban decree orders Afghanistan's women to veil their faces in public, and if they don't comply, male relatives face punishment
The Taliban ruled that Afghan women must cover their faces in public in a decree passed Saturday, a…
Alia Shoaib
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Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley says Olympic skier Eileen Gu can't be both American and Chinese
"Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, you're standing for freedom or you're sta…
Cheryl Teh
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Afghanistan's non-violent resistance against the Taliban is led by women who risk torture and detention: 'Fear is everywhere'
One protestor told Insider that talking to the Taliban doesn't work but the protests have brought i…
Sarah Al-Arshani,Edris Lutfi
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For the first time in 75 years, UN General Assembly to go virtual
The landmark 75th session of the UN General Assembly will begin on September 15. The General D…
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Taliban leader sits down with a female Afghan reporter for an in-person TV interview as part of the militant group's effort to project moderation
"I am still astonished that people are afraid of Taliban," Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad told TOLO News ho…
Eliza Relman
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10 million kids in Afghanistan depend on humanitarian aid to survive and one million kids could die from malnutrition this year, UN says
The World Food Program said 40% of Afghanistan's wheat crops have already been lost and the cost of…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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World could face multiple famines of biblical proportions due to COVID-19: UN body
"While dealing with a COVID-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic," David Beas…
PTI
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This women's day, read these 6 inspiring accounts of triumph over patriarchy
This women’s day, pickout books and drown yourself into the inspiring accounts of women. Busines…
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Trump tells Kim Jong Un he won't let the CIA spy on North Korea after an informant was killed
Trump has a long history of attacking the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Notably, Trump sided…
Alex Lockie
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A 14-year-old climate activist inspired by Greta Thunberg sits outside the UN on Fridays. She says she's been getting death threats.
When she came across a video of Thunberg's COP24 speech, Villaseñor said, she decided that she coul…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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FULL TEXT: Theresa May's speech to the Republican 'Congress of Tomorrow' conference
CHANGE IN BRITAIN And a newly emboldened, confident America is good for the world. An Amer…
Adam Bienkov
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Trump made the right decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council - but right now he needs to look in the mirror
All this is why it's a little frustrating that the exodus came when it did. Earlier this week, the …
Daniella Greenbaum
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The suspect in the Atlanta-area shootings that killed 8 people, 6 of them Asian women, is a 21-year-old white man who blamed a sex addiction for the attacks
Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested in connection to shootings at three mass…