Gender Equality as a human right and a development goal is enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights and in the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ...

April 16 (UPI) --The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled Wednesday that trans women are not legally women under the British Equality Act. The court ruled that the "meaning of the terms 'sex,' ...

Improving the status of women and girls strengthens economies, democracies, and societies across the board. That’s why I made gender equity a cornerstone of my Administration by creating the White ...

The equality watchdog has opened a public consultation on updates to its Code of Practice in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ...

Social scientists and gender theorists have long debated the causes of achievement disparities between males and females in certain competencies. For example, if we find (as we do) that most engineers ...

The United Kingdom Supreme Court began hearing a legal challenge centered on the definition of “woman” on Tuesday, marking the latest development in a long-running dispute between a women’s rights ...

The Council is calling for targeted efforts to advance gender equality in the digital age, with a focus on the risks and opportunities presented by AI. In today’s conclusions, the Council proposes ...

The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) aims to effectively counter the instrumentalization of gender by violent extremist and terrorist groups, support the elimination of sexual ...