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Women's Rights in the News

Curated news and reporting on gender equality, reproductive rights, health equity, and more — updated by DSA WRC members.

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Global CIVICUS Lens

International Women's Day 2026: Feminist Resistance in a World at War

IWD 2026 was marked by protests across 150+ marches worldwide, uniting a feminist response to rising femicide, the dismantling of equality funding, and the erosion of civic space. On every front, women's rights campaigners are insisting retreat isn't an option — and French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot became a global symbol of that refusal to be silent.

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"At the current rate, it will take 286 years to ensure that all women and girls have equal legal protection, economic participation, and bodily autonomy."

— CIVICUS Lens, 2026
Policy & Law ACLU

Trump Is Trying to Reverse Crucial Strides in Women's Rights Movement

The ACLU's Women's Rights Project details how the current administration is undermining women's economic freedom, gutting reproductive health access, targeting childcare programs, and stripping wage protections from female-dominated care worker industries.

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Global Ms. Magazine

The Erosion of Women's Rights Is a Warning Sign for Democracies Everywhere

As CSW70 convened world leaders at the UN, a sobering new report found that just 4% of women globally live in countries close to full legal equality — and not one of 190 economies has achieved equal economic participation for women. Hard-won rights are being actively dismantled.

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Global European Commission

EU Launches New Gender Equality Strategy for 2026–2030

The European Commission released a landmark strategy embedding gender equality into every dimension of EU policy — from combating cyberviolence and deepfakes targeting women, to closing the gender pay gap, improving women's healthcare, and increasing women's representation in leadership and STEM.

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Health Center for Reproductive Rights

U.S. Repro Watch: A North Carolina Woman Died Waiting for Abortion Care

The Center for Reproductive Rights documents six critical updates in US reproductive rights law: a woman's death while waiting for abortion care in North Carolina, Wyoming striking down its total ban, and states opening 2026 legislative sessions with new abortion restrictions and protections.

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Policy & Law Reproductive Freedom for All

Six Reproductive Freedom Storylines to Watch in 2026

From attacks on medication abortion and mifepristone, to "personhood" legislation threatening IVF and contraception, to the 2026 midterms as a referendum on reproductive rights — this deep-dive preview outlines the most critical battles ahead for reproductive freedom in America.

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Global United Nations

UN General Assembly President: "Gender Equality Has Never Seen Such Organised Attempts to Roll Back Successes"

At the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Annalena Baerbock warned that while global support for gender equality is at an all-time high, the organized opposition is growing faster than progress — calling women's rights "the benchmark for the strength, freedom and economic development of societies."

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