Female footballers once felt they had to put off motherhood until their playing days were over. Now a few are starting families mid-career, with lingering resentment at their clubs replaced by a FIFA-enforced policy.
The United States is prepared to increase the pace of interest rate hikes if strong economic data persists, and could raise them higher than previously anticipated, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday.
There has been minimal global movement toward gender pay equality because many women still face a "motherhood penalty" after having children, a study said Tuesday.
A Belgian MEP accused of taking part in an alleged graft network financed by Morocco and Qatar appeared in court on Tuesday to challenge the investigating magistrate leading the inquiry.
TUNIS — The head of a panel tasked with uncovering abuses under Tunisia's autocratic past rulers said Tuesday she had been banned from leaving the country as prosecutors investigate her for alleged falsifications in the commission's report.
Zambian police said Tuesday they had arrested four women's rights activists who had taken part in a march against gender-based violence that authorities said was used to support "homosexuality."
Nigeria's former deputy senate president on trial in London for allegedly plotting to harvest a street trader's kidney for his sick daughter told the court on Tuesday he feared he was being "scammed."
UN chief Antonio Guterres was traveling to Ukraine Tuesday to meet in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his third trip since Russia's full-scale invasion, his spokesman said.
In a passionate appeal, the United Nations rights chief decried on Tuesday the impact of racism and discrimination, and violence against women, LGBTQ people and other minorities around the world.
The Red Cross is bracing for a shortfall of up to a quarter of its 2023 budget, which could entail cuts to some operations, its chief told Swiss media.
Malnutrition is leaving children in Malawi vulnerable to the country's worst-ever cholera outbreak, the United Nations warned Tuesday as it appealed for more than $50 million to help combat the spread.
M23 rebels clashed with soldiers on two fronts in eastern DRC on Tuesday, officials said, despite a regional ceasefire deal due to take effect the same day.
The European Union on Tuesday imposed sanctions ahead of International Women's Day against officials from six countries, including Russia and Afghanistan, for violence and rights abuses against women.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Monday named a new minister to tackle a debilitating electricity crisis and a new deputy in a mini-cabinet shake-up a year ahead of the next general election.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo to respect a truce that was supposed to come into effect Tuesday.
Global progress on women's rights is "vanishing before our eyes," UN boss Antonio Guterres warned Monday, saying the increasingly distant goal of gender equality will take another three centuries to achieve.
Protecting life in the vast expanse of ocean beyond national jurisdictions finally has an international roadmap after UN states agreed a landmark high seas treaty at the weekend.
A joint Franco-Cameroonian commission has started work on delving into France's role in the Central African nation's colonial past and post-independence years, a chapter clouded by bloodshed and silence.
Eritrea's record on human rights "remains dire and shows no sign of improvement," the UN said Monday, citing torture and enforced disappearances that it said had been committed with total impunity.
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a sphinx statue "with a smiley face and two dimples" near the Hathor Temple, one of the country's best preserved ancient sites, the tourism and antiquities ministry announced Monday. It is the latest in a series of discoveries revealed over the past few months.
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