Thursday, Aug 27th
Last update06:50:36 AM GMT
Human Rights Nordic countries top gender equality list; US is 27th
Nordic countries again topped this year's scorecard measuring equality between women and men in 130 countries. The gap between men and women was widest in Yemen, with Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Benin, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Bahrain near the bottom of the list.
The United States moved up four places to 27 this year, closing just over 71 percent of the gender gap.
 Ahmed Zeidat was tending his olive trees in the occupied West Bank when a group of... |
 Israel may have committed war crimes in a double-tap attack on a Gaza hospital that killed... | ||
 Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the... |
 The documentary American Doctor is an intimate and unflinching look at the decimated healthcare system in... |
