In the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that, ...

CNN visits Al-Roj camp, a detention center in northeastern Syria where more than 2,000 women and children (though some are no longer children) have been held – some for more than a decade – by the ...

Women worldwide have only two thirds of the legal rights that men do, according to the World Bank's 2024 analysis of global gender equality laws. That's not ancient history we're talking about. This ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud in 2022 and reported to prison to begin serving her 11-year sentence in 2023 ...

A syndicate smuggled at least 15 Indonesian newborns to Singapore, using forged documents and direct flights to Changi Airport.

The US announced a far-reaching new round of sanctions against Iran, targeting senior security officials, a notorious prison accused of abusing detainees, and a sprawling network of front companies ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti. Credit: Deedeebee, Wikimedia Creative Commons An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public ...