"I was thinking, 'If I don't learn how to keep myself safe, I'm not going to be so lucky and something serious is really going to happen'." Those are the words of pharmacist Gulshen Bano, from ...

In a bid to increase safety options for women passengers, Uber South Africa has launched the Women Drivers feature locally. The option, now available in the Uber app, allows female riders to select to ...

In the run-up to the Global Women’s Summit slated for October in Beijing, which will mark the 30th anniversary of that city’s influential 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women, some WeChat accounts ...

The senior police officer in charge of preventing violence against women and girls has warned that the political discourse around asylum seekers risks being a distraction from the "real threat" to ...

New Delhi police apprehended Manoj Verma on Tuesday for operating fake female social media profiles. He lured women into sharing private content, then blackmailed them with threats of online ...

Lucknow police have launched a night escort service under Mission Shakti 5.0, giving women travelling alone between 10 pm and 6 am the assurance of a safe ride home by a police response vehicle (PRV).

A Dublin councillor who campaigns on women’s safety in the capital was punched in the face by a man in a random attack when she was walking down a busy inner-city street. Cat O’Driscoll, a Social ...

Lizzy Lawrence leads STAT’s coverage of the Food and Drug Administration. She was previously a medical devices reporter. You can reach Lizzy on Signal at lizzylaw.53. Researchers have shut pregnant ...

My husband likes to view porn and will often make comments on women’s nudes. During the pandemic, this worsened. He would be looking at posts of women and commenting on them while sitting right next ...

The ICC Women’s World Cup clash between India and Pakistan in Colombo witnessed a bizarre and costly fielding lapse, which quickly became the talk of social media. During India’s innings, Richa Ghosh ...

BENGALURU: The Karnataka BJP has written to the National Commission for Women urging its president to visit Karnataka to review the condition of women in the state. In the letter, BJP Karnataka women ...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of endangering women’s health, saying the agency approved another chemical abortion drug without the thorough safety review it ...