UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October ...

The remains of a Connecticut woman who went missing on a hike in Japan two years ago have been recovered, her family ...

Miyachi, president and CEO of Cartier Japan, talks about the impact of the Women’s Pavilion at World Expo and the Cartier Women’s Initiative program ...

Over half of female business leaders in Japan doubt the country will reach its target of having women occupy 30 percent of top corporate roles by 2030, citing slow shifts in views among its ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel, set in post-war Nagasaki and 1980s England, needed to be made into a ...

This year’s theme, “The power of communities”, celebrates the strength that emerges from solidarity. It honours the diversity within LGBTIQ+ communities and the collective efforts of human rights ...

This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ...

The 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) provided a significant opportunity for the global feminist movement to assess progress toward gender equality and women’s rights, ...

If vulnerable nations no longer receive U.S. assistance that helps them meet economic objectives and fosters democratic ...

Women's rights organizations around the world are reaching 'a breaking point' due to foreign aid cuts, according to a report published Tuesday by UN Women. The report says that a survey conducted in ...

Japan and Thailand have qualified for the FIFA Futsal Women’s World Cup after edging IR Iran and China PR respectively.

Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry ...