For many refugee children, especially girls, paying for and staying in school is a challenge. This program in a Ugandan refugee camp is working to change that.
Finding more accurate representations of my identity was so important not just because I saw myself in them, therefore, but because I felt connected to a wider community.
A new study shows that laws restricting abortion access are creating long-lasting economic consequences for women.
Wendy Williams recently unfortunately contributed to an already prevalent culture of victim blaming and silencing women.
When the women of Rwandit village learned how much initiation ceremonies for girls and boys were really costing them—in terms of money and lost education – they radically reformed their traditions, giving women and girls more power in the process.
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Act aims to eliminate corporate policies that allow companies to silence victims of sexual harassment in the workplace.
A new study of the portrayal of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on television has found little progress over the past decade.
“Women in Somaliland, especially younger women and girls, are now beginning to have hope for a better future,” 25-year-old Ahmed said of the bill, which is the country’s first piece of legislation to address sexualized violence.
The kinds of tactics politicians use to create and pass abortion restrictions are also used by anti-choice groups on college campuses.
In a vote early this evening, Senate Republicans failed to pass “The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” a bill that aimed to make abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization illegal in most cases.
Issa Rae is not only a talented creator and writer, but is actually shifting the way the industry views creators of color
Several advocacy groups are charging that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' rollback of Title IX protections is unconstitutional.
Winfrey, who is the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement, used this platform to highlight important issues related to both the #MeToo movement and her own experiences as a black woman.
The ACLU, along with three other legal advocacy groups, filed a federal class action lawsuit late Sunday night against Dallas County, Texas, alleging that poor people charged with misdemeanors and felonies are being detained indefinitely while those who can afford bail are walking free.
Just as my initial coping mechanism post-assault was to demonize my perpetrator and eschew nuance in the name of healing, I worry that perhaps that has been our wider cultural approach.
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