women’s rights

Women across the world face unacceptable mistreatment during childbirth, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) launched on Wednesday.

Mr. Guterres highlighted the contribution that women have made to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, hailed the ideas, innovations and activism that are changing our world for the better, and welcomed more women leaders across all walks of life. However, as the UN...

“I have never had any greed for power. Like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who fought for guaranteeing equal rights for everyone without any desire for personal gain, I have always believed in humanity and in equal rights, opportunities,...

Approximately 80 million children from 5 to 7 years old are subjected to modern-day slavery today, according to UNICEF and ILO’s findings from June. Moreover, experts claim that one in every 130 women and girls are victims of forced labor,...

Now the dark days are here again in Afghanistan and nothing could better illustrate the ups and downs of women’s rights in Afghanistan than what Zarifa Ghafari, one of the first female mayors in Afghanistan, said a few days ago: "I'm...

March, women’s history month, closes with the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico and against the background of significant setbacks on the empowerment of women caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. From our seats in the General Assembly and our screens at...

The Italy of the future but also, and above all, that of the present, risks being a nation of excluded people, first of all women and young people. During this crisis Mission Bambini, a non-profit organization based in Milan, has...

It’s a lack that must be filled, because our history, our culture, our art, our science is made also of feminine names, that remain invisible. It happens also in the rest of the world. In New York, for example the...

“L’uguaglianza di genere è fondamentalmente una questione di potere; potere che è gelosamente detenuto dall’uomo... Viviamo in un mondo dominato dagli uomini con una cultura dominata dagli uomini, e lo abbiamo fatto per millenni..."