An amendment to Portugal’s labour code is designed to protect work-life balance by introducing a “right to rest”.

Four South African women have successfully overturned a set of archaic marriage laws that denied women equal property rights after divorce.

When the Elwha River dams fell, it followed decades of successful partnerships to support local indigenous tribes to right historic wrongs.

Mohammed Elyamani is using Facebook to confront those who have for many years been sexually exploiting thousands of women across Egypt.

With her new solar light, a stallholder in Kenya can catch her own fish at night rather than buy from fishermen who only sell fish for sex.

Another US city is reporting early success with a program that replaces police with health care workers for some emergency calls.

Pakistan’s Christian transgenders — often mocked, abused and bullied — have finally found some peace and solace in a church of their own.

Sudan’s transitional government has agreed to separate ‘church and state’, ending three decades of Islamic rule in the North African nation.

Iowa’s governor has signed an executive order that automatically reinstates the voting rights of Iowans who have completed their sentences.

A new independent commission will soon redraw fairer boundaries to correct a flaw that has caused electoral disenfranchisement in Michigan.

The mayor of the Blue Mountains — west of Sydney — is pushing for the Rights of Nature to make it onto the council’s legislative agenda.

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the national government to grant career prospects to women officers on par with men.

Bellen Woodard never thought a single moment in school would see strangers across the US talking about race and identity and childhood.

From 2021, Finland will significantly increase parental leave.

Veganism has been deemed a philosophical belief to be protected by law.

From 2020, Californians will gain “unprecedented rights” to control the information tech companies — often unknowingly — gather on them.

Since Sweden and Denmark introduced same-sex marriage, rates of suicide have fallen remarkably in the LGBTQ community.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Taipei for the first pride parade since Taiwan legalised gay marriage.

In a case that may set a legal precedent, lawyers in New York have argued an elephant should be afforded similar rights to humans.

After more than four decades, women are able to enter football stadiums in Iran.