Colombia becomes 4th Latin American country to decriminalize abortion
Now women in Colombia will be able to get abortions until the 24th week of their pregnancy without having to provide any justification.
Women's rights & well-being
Women-led, green businesses begin to sprout up in Ukraine
The U.N. migration agency IOM launched a pilot project called “Sustainably Made in Ukraine” in 2020, which led to the country’s first voluntary Corporate Sustainability Standard for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Xiomara Castro becomes Honduras’ first female president
Castro, a democratic socialist, won a landslide victory in last year’s presidential election after campaigning on a radical agenda to counter years of governance plagued by corruption and scandal.
Girls in Seychelles to receive free sanitary products
Sanitary products will be made available free of charge to all girls in Seychelles in both state and private secondary schools as of the new school year in January 2022.
Pakistan confirms appointment of first female Supreme Court judge
A commission that decides on the promotion of judges on Thursday voted to make 55-year-old Justice Ayesha Malik the first female judge on the Supreme Court in the 75 years since the South Asian country’s independence.
The number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. rose 21% between 2014 and 2019
Businesses owned by Black women represent the highest rate of growth in the number of total women-owned businesses.
HPV vaccine cutting cervical cancer by 87% in the U.K., shows new study
Cancer Research UK described the findings as “historic”, and said it showed the vaccine was saving lives.
Benin becomes the first West African country to legalize abortion
Before, abortion was only permitted if the pregnancy endangered the life of the pregnant woman, was the result of rape, or was conceived in an incestuous relationship.
Cleveland Clinic launches human trials on first-of-its-kind preventative breast cancer vaccine
After two decades of preclinical research, human trials are set to begin on a unique preventative vaccine that is designed to target a protein commonly expressed by triple-negative breast cancers.
Egypt’s State Council swears-in the nation’s first female judges
Ninety-eight women were sworn in before the council’s chief judge Mohammed Hossam el-Din as the first female judges in the country’s history to join the State Council.