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The Sri Lankan government announced on Wednesday it was amending a 1955 law, agreeing that it discriminated against women. Critics have accused the president of not taking gender equality seriously. A move to grant women in...

News Hour: Half of British women and a fifth of men have been sexually harassed at work or a place of study, a BBC survey says. Of the women who said they had been harassed, 63%...

News Hour: A women’s 50km race walk will feature at the London 2017 world athletics championships for the first time in order to ensure gender equality, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Sunday....

News Hour: A team of West Bengal police is jointly working on this investigation with the NIA team in Agra. According to a report by India Today, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has set up a...

News Hour: More than 700 young women have, to date, registered to do community distribution work in return for a menstrual cup and a goat. This deal is just one innovative menstrual cup distribution model being...

News Hour: Approximately 2.1 million Liberians have registered to vote in the upcoming October 2017 presidential and legislative elections, according to provisional results. Almost half of those registered are women. Voter registration was conducted between 1...

News Hour: Women across the globe are facing new threats which risk dismantling decades of hard-won rights and derailing the effort to end extreme poverty, Oxfam warns today. Ahead of International Women’s Day next week, the...

News Hour: An Oxfam award-winning film challenging the deep-rooted patriarchy in India cannot be screened in the country. The Central Board of Film Certification has refused to certify ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’, saying the movie is...

News Hour: Fierce bowling spells by the bowlers enabled Bangladesh women’s cricket team to record second successive victory in the ACC Women’s T20 Asia Cup beating their Nepalese counterparts by a massive 92-run held on Tuesday...

News Hour: Micronutrient deficiency is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. Among all micronutrients, vitamin A deficiency affects an alarming percentage, despite ongoing supplementation programs. To address this problem, the USAID-AIN (Aquaculture for Income and...