Despite a decade-long government plan to end violence against women, the alarming reality is that the rate of women being killed violently continues to ...

Aboriginal women 7 times more likely to be homicide victims than non-Indigenous women, with 75% killed by current or former ...

Some of the rousing speeches by women in the Madam Speaker archive hit just as hard in 2024 as they did in the 1800s.

From Iraq to Afghanistan to the US, basic freedoms for women are being eroded as governments start rolling back existing laws ...

After leaving parliament, she went on to be Australia's representative advancing women's rights around the world. She observed other nations' progress while watching the harassment continue at home.

This is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the UN - effectively an international bill of rights for women. Giggle’s defence argued that Australia’s ratification of CEDAW obliges the St ...

Reproductive rights organisations have been rallying ... a fuse for federal politicians to weigh in on what they think Australian women should do with their bodies. Calling for a national debate ...

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was an autodidact who became a formidable champion of women’s rights and education ... or even worse than animals Australia withdrew from a one-day series scheduled ...

The scarf was sent to her by the Older Women's Network, an Australian advocacy group for older women's rights, as a gesture of love and solidarity. WARNING: The details in this story may be ...