A new independent commission will soon redraw fairer boundaries to correct a flaw that has caused electoral disenfranchisement in Michigan.

The mayor of the Blue Mountains — west of Sydney — is pushing for the Rights of Nature to make it onto the council’s legislative agenda.

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the national government to grant career prospects to women officers on par with men.

Bellen Woodard never thought a single moment in school would see strangers across the US talking about race and identity and childhood.

From 2021, Finland will significantly increase parental leave.

Veganism has been deemed a philosophical belief to be protected by law.

From 2020, Californians will gain “unprecedented rights” to control the information tech companies — often unknowingly — gather on them.

Since Sweden and Denmark introduced same-sex marriage, rates of suicide have fallen remarkably in the LGBTQ community.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Taipei for the first pride parade since Taiwan legalised gay marriage.

In a case that may set a legal precedent, lawyers in New York have argued an elephant should be afforded similar rights to humans.

After more than four decades, women are able to enter football stadiums in Iran.

A group of villagers are standing their ground by refusing to sell their homes to the owners of one of Germany’s biggest surface coal mines.

Students in Oregon, USA, will soon be able to be excused from school for mental health reasons — just as they would for a physical ailment.

In a landmark case, a court in Bulgaria has recognised same-sex marriage for the first time.

In a bid to encourage good behaviour, prisoners in the UK could be given a new raft of rights — including open access to their cells.

Iceland has voted unanimously to expand the rights of transgender people and introduce a new gender identity.