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🇺🇸 Democratic Women's Caucus outlines 2027 budget priorities — 08/04/2026 [USA]
A letter written by leaders of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) outlines the group’s appropriations priorities for fiscal 2027, days after the White House unveiled its budget requests. The letter, ...
Related: #Budget Priorities, #Congressional Appropriations
🇺🇸 It's Equal Pay Day. Women have lost ground for the second year in a row — 26/03/2026 [USA]
The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.
Related: #Gender Equality, #Economic Justice
🇬🇧 ‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities – as five female academics...
Related: #Education Access
🇺🇸 Political tug of war over Iranian women's soccer team prompts criticism in Australia — 20/03/2026 [USA]
The United States and Australia’s political tug of war against Iran over the fates of seven members of the Iranian women’s soccer squad who were torn in between appears to have ended with ...
Related: #Sports Politics
🇺🇸 Iranian women’s football team return to Iran — 18/03/2026 [USA]
The Iranian national women's football team has returned to Iran, including several players who withdrew asylum requests.
Related: #Sports
🇬🇧 Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’ — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repressionAs I write this, Iranians around...
Related: #Iranian Protest
🇺🇸 ‘The Secret Reading Club of Kabul’ Follows Young Afghan Women, Inspired by Anne Frank, Defying the Taliban: “They Want to Be Heard and Seen” — 14/03/2026 [USA]
The documentary from Shakiba Adil and Elina Hirvonen, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, features clandestinely shot mobile phone footage and shows "the power of art to keep hope and humanism alive....
Related: #Resistance Through Art, #Human Rights Under Oppression
🇬🇧 Iran women's football team are 'heroes' after national anthem stand, says former men's coach — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
The Iran women's national football team have become "heroes" and deserve to be free to live their lives, says former Iran men's head coach Afshin Ghotbi.
Related: #Sports Protest
🇺🇸 ‘Burning Voice’ Goes Inside Tamara Amer’s Fight for Iraqi Women’s Rights: “I Won’t Shut Up” — 13/03/2026 [USA]
Anna Bruun Nørager's documentary, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, comes amid a global backlash: "Extreme conservative forces are trying to push down the fight for women’s rights."
Related: #Activism, #Documentary
🇺🇸 How Iran’s women footballers took asylum in Australia and what happens next — 12/03/2026 [USA]
Al Jazeera breaks down the events surrounding the Iranian team – from the national anthem row to the players' escape.
Related: #Asylum, #Sports
🇺🇸 Al Jazeera visits Middle East’s first women-only mosque — 11/03/2026 [USA]
Al Jazeera visited the first women-only mosque in the Middle East, in the Qatari capital Doha.
Related: #Religion
🇺🇸 Iranian soccer team leaves Australia, with seven women staying behind — 11/03/2026 [USA]
Seven women from the Iranian national soccer team remain in Australia, an Australian government official said Wednesday, as the rest of their team journeys back to a country at the center of a widenin...
Related: #International Relations
🇺🇸 Australia grants asylum to 2 more members of Iranian women's soccer team — 10/03/2026 [USA]
Two more members of the Iranian women's soccer team were granted asylum in Australia before their teammates departed, the country's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday.
Related: #Asylum, #Sports
🇺🇸 5 members of Iranian women's soccer team granted asylum in Australia — 10/03/2026 [USA]
Australia has granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team who were in the country for a tournament when the Iran war began.
Related: #Asylum, #Sports
🇬🇧 Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion banWomen’s rights activists in Chile are bracing as the most conservative president s...
Related: #Political Change
🇺🇸 Australia grants asylum to 5 members of the Iranian women's soccer team — 10/03/2026 [USA]
Australia has granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who were in the country for a tournament when the Iran war began
Related: #Asylum, #Sports
🇬🇧 More Iran women’s football team members expected to seek asylum in Australia — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
<ul><li>Five Iran footballers already granted asylum get offer from Brisbane Roar</li><li>Advocates working to inform remaining players of their rights</li></ul>Australia’s responsibi...
Related: #Asylum, #Sports
🇺🇸 Members of Iranian national women's soccer team seeking asylum in Australia — 09/03/2026 [USA]
President Trump says he's spoken with the Australian prime minister about members of the Iranian national women's soccer team who don't want to return to their home country amid the war. CBS News chie...
Related: #Asylum, #Sports Politics
🇺🇸 Trump says Australia has taken care of some Iranian women soccer players — 09/03/2026 [USA] Related: #International Relations
🇺🇸 Australia grants asylum to five Iranian women soccer players over concerns for safety — 09/03/2026 [USA]
Australia said Monday it is granting asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team, responding to concerns the players would be harmed if they returned to their home country.
Related: #Asylum
🇺🇸 Fear, uncertainty surround Iran women’s football team’s return home — 09/03/2026 [USA]
Players body and activists say the team must be protected while head coach insists the players are eager to return.
Related: #Sports Politics
🇺🇸 Crowd chants ‘save our girls’ at bus carrying Iran women’s team — 09/03/2026 [USA]
Crowds chased a bus carrying Iran’s women’s football team in Australia, chanting 'save our girls'.
Related: #Sports Protest
🇬🇧 Sense of urgency surrounds Iran women’s football team as safety fears grow | Jack Snape — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
There are mounting calls for Australia to take action before the team return to Iran but with no word from the players themselves the situation is fraught and uncertainTheir forward was once...
Related: #Sports Safety
🇺🇸 Marches for International Women’s Day denounce war, abuse and oppression — 08/03/2026 [USA]
Marches on 115th anniversary of IWD place focus on issues like US-Israeli war on Iran and Trump's links with Epstein.
Related: #Social Justice
🇺🇸 Here's what to know about International Women's Day — a celebration and a call to action — 08/03/2026 [USA]
Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women's Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world.
Related: #Gender Equality
🇺🇸 Almanac: March 8 — 08/03/2026 [USA]
Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
Related: #Global Observance
🇬🇧 ‘Grave concerns’ for Iran’s return home after Women’s Asian Cup elimination — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
<ul><li>Iran finish last in group after 2-0 defeat by Philippines</li><li>Players called ‘traitors’ for not singing anthem last week</li></ul>The Iran women’s team face the uncertain ...
Related: #Sports Politics
🇺🇸 Why Democratic Congresswomen Wore White to Trump’s State of the Union Again — 25/02/2026 [USA]
It’s not the first time some Democratic women have displayed unity by wearing the same color, but this time it was in part to signal opposition to the SAVE America Act.
Related: #Political Protest, #Voter Rights
🇺🇸 Women in white: Democratic Women's Caucus wears white at State of the Union — 25/02/2026 [USA]
Several members of the House Democratic Women's Caucus donned white for their symbol of protest this year at President Trump's first State of the Union of his second term.
Related: #Political Protest, #Symbolic Resistance
🇬🇧 Survivor of financial abuse invited to advise ministers after Guardian report — 21/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
City minister Lucy Rigby acts after woman faced repossession of house burned down by controlling husbandA woman who was nearly killed by her abusive husband has been invited to advise the go...
Related: #Financial Abuse, #Domestic Violence, #Government Policy