Marie Louis Paulette Milne, one of only seven women among 216 election candidates, secured 1227 votes to pip her closest ...

Vanesa Escobar is a JURIST correspondent in Peru and a law graduate of Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco.  On December 10th Peru suffered yet another murder. This time, however, the ...

Priya Saroj, the youngest woman Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh and a member of the Samajwadi Party, is engaged to Indian cricketer Rinku Singh. The families met in Aligarh to finalize ...

Special Aide to the President, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has praised John Dramani Mahama for nominating seven women for ...

Women who work in Holyrood have told The Herald about sexual harassment, discrimination and prejudice from colleagues and politicians.

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn was given permission by MPs to introduce the Women’s State Pension age (Ombudsman report ...

She explains her aspirations, as well as her historic election as one of the first women Members of Parliament in Eswatini: I was motivated by an incident where a 6-year-old relative of mine was ...

Three parliament employees have been dismissed after being found guilty of sexually assaulting female staff members, parliament sources said ... Bureau for the Prevention of Abuse of Children and ...

In recent years, protection needs have continued to rise as millions have been forced to flee their homes as a result of new and ongoing conflicts, climate conditions, violence, persecution and ...

The amendments to Iraq's personal status law allow clerics to rule on marriages based on their interpretation of Islamic law.

Congress member of parliament from Sitapur, Rakesh Rathore, was arrested on January 30, reports said. He was arrested on charges of rape, the report said and was taken in custody by the police when he ...

On April 3, 1950, law minister B R Ambedkar announced the formation of an unofficial advisory committee for drafting the ...