Women's Rights
Saudi Women Continue Their Fight for the Right to Drive
A 25-year-old activist spent the night in her car after police confiscated her passport for trying to drive across the Saudi Arabian border on Sunday night.
Indian Women Are Being Encouraged to Trade Fertility for Mobile Phones
In India's pursuit of its dream birth rate, human beings are reduced to whole numbers, children to fractions, and fallopian tubes to mobile phones.
The Hangover News
This weekend, a man who surfed on a dead humpback whale surrounded by sharks admitted it was a bad idea.
A Strippers Collective Is Standing Up for Strippers' Rights
If you get a lap dance in the UK, you're probably receiving it from a girl who has to pay fees to work and deals with bullying bosses, arbitrary fines, and terrible conditions.
Abortion Rights in Ireland
VICE News travelled to Dublin, where thousands of people marched through the city center, calling for real and realistic abortion access in Ireland.
A Woman Got Six Extra Years in Prison Because She Was Pregnant
Lacey Weld was 26 years old and in the final weeks of pregnancy when a camera attached to an undercover police officer captured her 40-minute visit to a meth-manufacturing plant. A judge threw the book at her, but advocates are fighting back.
Why Are Most of New York's Women's Equality Party Candidates Men?
Because it's a sham orchestrated by corrupt politicians.
Pakistani Acid Burn Victims Are Starting Over in Beauty Salons
Women are attacked by their husbands with acid all the time in modern Pakistan. Now one beauty salon magnate is using her stores to provide a support network for survivors.
The Guy Behind Confused Cats Against Feminism Is Sick of Mansplaining to Other Men
Confused Cats Against Feminism, a parody of the Women Against Feminism Tumblr, may not be a repository for the absolute wittiest comedy the internet has to offer, but it is a repository for frustration.
Sexual Violence Against Women on India’s Election Agenda, But Not Really
India has seen a massive anti-rape movement recently, but sexual violence is hardly a priority for candidates in the ongoing election.
Iran’s Courts Are Still Blaming Rape Victims for Their Attacks
Rayhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year-old from Tehran, faces the death penalty for killing her attacker in self-defense.