Suriname’s parliament backed Jennifer Simons as the South American country’s first woman president on Sunday, setting the ...

Trans women banned from using women’s toilets in parliament - The Commons has been accused of a ‘knee-jerk response’ after ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname 's parliament Sunday elected physician Jennifer Geerlings-Simons ...

Lebanon is campaigning to get at least five times more women elected to parliament this spring in its first vote in nearly 10 years, the country's first women's affairs minister says.

“More women in parliament leads to better decision-making, more peaceful societies, and more representative democracies that work for everyone,” she said in the statement. The report touts the ...

GENEVA — A survey finds a record number of women are serving as members of parliament worldwide. The report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) shows last year, women occupied nearly 22 ...

Around 200 female MPs gathered in Parliament for a suffragette-inspired photocall, celebrating the suffrage movement's legacy ...

After delivering my speech at the European Parliament's conference for International Women's Day, a Lithuanian journalist asked me how I can use the word 'feminism' in my articles without ...

Women in parliament can be divided into two groups: those who have a feminist conscientiousness or awareness, and those who do not. Once we, the reformists, won the election in 2000, ...

Nearly 100 years since women were first allowed to sit in parliament, fewer in total have been elected to the House of Commons than the number of men currently sitting.

The House of Commons approved an amendment preventing criminal prosecution of women who have abortions after the legal ...

Women’s rights in Afghanistan have been anything but stable during the past 50 years, but amid a two-decade civil war they still managed to turn the tide back to a more equitable society and ...