Now in its third year, the Aurat March is raising the call of Pakistan's women to abolish systems built on hegemony, patriarchy, and neo-colonialism.
TikTok has repeatedly, purposefully censored content it deems unattractive while allowing highly publicized sexist, violent, and hateful content to remain.
Groundbreaking writer-director Alice Wu surprises with her long-awaited second feature.
I’m still learning today, but these are the three most important lessons that have helped guide this learning: Question everything. Learn so you can unlearn. Ask for help.
Continuous attacks by machete-wielding gangs against artisanal miners in Zimbabwe disproportionately affect women miners, highlighting longstanding impediments for women to access the sector and threatening the government's target for an annual mining revenue of $12 billion by 2023.
In five years of war in Yemen, more than 100,000 people have been killed and the country’s medical system has been shredded. Now the United Nations Population Fund is warning that reproductive health care for women and girls in Yemen is about to collapse entirely.
Anti-choice protests were staged at clinics in North Carolina; Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; and Michigan, at which protesters similarly disregarded social distancing guidelines.
White Americans must disavow, relinquish, dismantle, and divest from white supremacy at an individual and institutional level.
A presidential decree announced in Afghanistan at the end of March allowed for the release at least 10,000 prisoners over the age of 55 but there are still more than 100 women in a Kabul prison, now at great risk of becoming infected with coronavirus.
Despite their disproportionate vulnerability, the Indian government has largely ignored commercially sexually exploited people in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“On the Record” focuses on empowering Black women in the #MeToo movement.
An interview from Asha Dahya’s book 'Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing the World'. Asha Dahya is a survivor of child marriage.
Last August, India's Hindu nationalist government scrapped Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution, stripping the state of Jammu & Kashmir of its special constitutional status. What followed is only the latest chapter in a documented history of sexualized violence by security forces as a means to quell dissent in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
"We're one of the most vulnerable populations, and it's the government that makes us vulnerable. During this pandemic especially, we need maximum protection."
A documentary airing today reveals that the plaintiff in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, later revealed as Norma McCorvey, lied when she said she’d become pro-life in 1995.
The Health and Human Services department is continuing plans to undo antidiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
In early 2018, the story of a baby who was raped by a relative sent shockwaves around the world. Two years later, the world has moved on, but she is no closer to receiving justice.
These writers keep working, and all of them told The FBomb that more amazing stories about amazing women are coming soon.
Countries like New Zealand, Germany, and Finland have had striking success in fighting the coronavirus. What do they have in common? For one, they all have women leaders.
Of the many astonishing developments to come from COVID-19, the angry assemblies of Americans in many states requesting that the government reopen the country rank high.
The life I was choosing for myself was almost on the line. And abortion would have saved it.
Pandemic-related lockdowns disproportionally burden women. By asking the right questions, policymakers can create policies that alleviate that burden.
As men have increased their research while home these past couple months, women have lowered their submissions to academic journals, indicating that women are less able to do their research while in stuck in the house.
According to Quartz, any woman under the age of 45 seeking a hajj visa must travel with a mahram, or a male guardian, usually someone related to the woman by blood.
The many unnecessary barriers to abortion access in the U.S. have grown exponentially during the pandemic, forcing providers and patients to adapt.