A law in Japan bans childless women from accessing voluntary sterilisation. Now a Tokyo judge has found it "lacks rationality" and should be debated.

A Japanese court said Tuesday that a law hugely restricting women’s access to sterilisation ‘lacks rationality’, a ruling ...

The Government of Tonga has changed the legal age of marriage to 18, effective immediately. Previously, a person 15-17 years ...

TOKYO: A Japanese court said Tuesday that a law hugely restricting women's access to sterilisation "lacks rationality", a ruling hailed by plaintiffs as a "step forward". The Toky ...

This story originally appeared in the . The Senate State Affairs Committee voted Friday to amend a bill requiring social ...

In 2012, facing a shrinking labour force and economic stagnation, then-Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo bet on women. To ...

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Get live updates and the latest news on the Trump administration as talks in Congress over the DHS shutdown and a bill to overhaul elections, titled the SAVE America Act, continue ...

The Committee made public today its Views after reviewing a case filed by C.Y. and her father from Cambodia. C.Y. was 11 years of age with perceived intellectual disability when she was repeatedly ...

A while back, Reddit user RetR0-Danger posed the question, "What is something that is widely normalized but is actually really fucked up?" to the folks over at askreddit. Unsurprisingly, a lot of ...

Stacker researched films that provoked national controversy, highlighting 45 of the most significant along with their IMDb ...

At least 48 boys and young men died during the latest round of initiation ceremonies in South Africa, which involve the highly secretive process of traditional circumcision to “become a ...