UN report finds women's rights weakened in quarter of all countries
Voice of America
FILE - The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in New York, Aug. 15, 2014.
Women's rights regressed last year in a quarter of countries around the world, according to a report published by UN Women on Thursday, due to factors ranging from climate change to democratic backsliding.
FILE - A man holds rosary beads as he prays for Pope Francis in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where the Pontiff has been hospitalized since Feb. 14, in Rome, Feb. 26, 2025.
Iran wraps up 'unprecedented' military exercises highlighting strengths, weaknesses, researchers say
In this photo provided Jan. 12, 2025, by the Iranian Army, a missile is launched during a drill in Iran. Iran's military exercises Iran's military exercises In this photo provided Feb. 22, 2025, by the Iranian Army, a helicopter approaches a vessel during a drill in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean.
FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019, file photo, smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China's Shanxi Province.
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Rescue workers and volunteers help victims of a bomb explosion upon their arrival at a hospital in Bannu, Pakistan, March 4, 2025.
FILE - The Ukrainian Air Force's F-16 fighter jets fly over a Patriot Air and Missile Defense System in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Aug. 4, 2024. FILE - U.S.-made Abrams tanks purchased by Poland take part in a military parade in Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 15, 2023.
A delivery rider passes by workers laboring at a new residential building under construction in Beijing on March 1, 2025. Residential complexes are seen near a frozen river in Miyun district in northeastern Beijing, on Feb. 27, 2025.
FILE - A demonstrator holds a picture of Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Feb. 27, 2025.
Candles are lit at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome, March 4, 2025.
Golden Dragon military exercise in Svay Chok village, Kampong Chhnang province, north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 30, 2024. China will boost its defense spending by 7.2% this year.
FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.
FILE - Houthi supporters raise weapons as they shout slogans during an anti-U.S and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on Feb. 14, 2025. The U.S. State Department on March 4, 2025, designated the Iran-backed group as a "foreign terrorist organization."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, welcomes Myanmar's junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, left, during their meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, March 4, 2025.