Pope Francis on Sunday decried the genital mutilation of millions of girls and the trafficking of women for sex, including openly on city streets, so that others can make money off them.
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022, the Taliban said they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers.
President Joe Biden has said he will nominate a Black woman to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history, filling the vacancy left by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Pakistan’s first female Supreme Court judge has been sworn in in the Islamabad capital. In the Muslim-majority country’s top court, Ayesha Malik, 55, now sits on a bench with 16 other male colleagues
A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight.
By Tanya Maswaure
Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, serving as the current mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital and largest city, has been awarded the Bloomberg award for the Mayors Challenge this week. The annual competition recognizes 15 cities across the globe with the most promising ideas, innovations, and most recently, their adjustment to the pandemic.
Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman ever to appear on a US quarter after a coin featuring the late poet and activist’s image went into circulation on Monday.
