Latvia will have to uphold protection rules for women even if it quits the Istanbul Convention in a divisive move seen as backtracking on fundamental rights.View on euronews ...

The Latvian Parliament has voted to withdraw from a European treaty supporting women who are victims of violence ...

Latvian lawmakers supporting the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention claim the treaty promotes ‘gender’ theories Read ...

The Istanbul Convention is a treaty of the Council of Europe that opposes violence against women. The ballot saw 56 Latvian ...

In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact sent lawmakers into a scramble to shut them out. POLLS APARTHoward Pyle’s ...

SEATTLE — An 88-year-old woman is recovering after being brutally attacked and robbed at her South Seattle home Monday night. Seattle police say the woman was cleaning items on her back porch in the ...

A woman died in an “apparent suicide” on Tuesday outside Disney World‘s Contemporary Resort in Florida, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. “We can confirm this was an apparent suicide,” ...

A Greenfield Twp. woman who accused her boyfriend of being controlling and manipulative attacked him Friday after a night out, according to a criminal complaint. Stephanie Altier, 41, of 110 Altier ...

A prominent surgeon and professor allegedly raped a woman at gunpoint at his Manhattan apartment after the victim had come to him for career advice, according to prosecutors. Dr. Maurizio Miglietta — ...

A woman had to have a finger amputated after she was left injured by a man armed with a plank of wood in Bradford, police said. The woman, aged in her 20s, was assaulted on Harrogate Road near ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The woman at the center of a possible abduction case has been found safe, according to the Wichita Police Department. Around 3 p.m. Tuesday, investigators received a phone call ...