In early May, Kim Kardashian West made headlines for her attempts to ask White House officials to advocate for a presidential pardon for 62-year-old Alice Marie Johnson. While this case is certainly worthy of attention, her advocacy generally overlooks the fundamental problems of racism and prosecutorial discretion within the criminal justice system.
Despite the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army being the first in the world to acknowledge the different realities and disadvantages women and the LGBTQ population face, advocates say deeply entrenched misogyny is stalling progress.
In late March, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that closes a legal loophole in an attempt to ensure domestic abusers are required to surrender all firearms, not just handguns.
A monument dedicated to “victims of abortion” is one step closer to being built on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol.
Operation Condor, a France and U.S.-endorsed campaign of torture in South America, is long over. But the brutality it wrought still echoes today.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and build a database that it enables it to track and search journalists, editors, and “media influencers” based on their beat and past work.
Removing the barriers to accessing safe and timely abortion is an economic justice issue.
Obituaries of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt only tell part of the story. Here's the rest.
Women hold fewer than one-quarter of elected positions in the U.S. Eight top women's organizations are uniting to change this picture.
I doubt that even years from now our world will be perfect, that all issues of violence will be solved. But I know I will no longer sit idly by when mass shootings kill kids. I will be able to look back and say that I did something.
At a recent closed-door meeting, Bethany Kozma stood before a roomful of international leaders assembled to discuss gender equality and women’s rights and announced that the “U.S. is a pro-life nation.”
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard the first oral arguments in a crucial case targeting Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Lizz Winstead of Lady Parts Justice explains why this case is so important.
On Monday, Mississippi's governor signed a new bill into law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks, making Mississippi the strictest state in the country for women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Just before noon today, a district judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the state's lone clinic.
The teen victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting quickly coalesced into a movement: They used the hashtag #NeverAgain to share their experiences on Twitter and made their message clear to mainstream media, too.
The last decade saw the slowest progress on closing the gender wage gap in nearly 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday.
The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School may be the tragic event that finally leads to the change this country needs to finally address gun control.
The fight against injustice will always be long and often discouraging. The only way to persist is to choose a cause you feel that your life—and the lives of others—depends on, one you can speak to from (for lack of a better, less cheesy phrase) the heart.
They are the hidden cost of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines: single, teenage mothers whose partners have been killed by police or vigilantes. And without a job or government support, it’s near impossible for them to support their children.
As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.
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.
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.
The Women's March marks its one year anniversary with huge turnouts at marches all over the U.S., and launches a campaign to mobilize candidates and voters.
Today, the Trump administration established yet more barriers for women, LGBTQ people, and others to access the urgent care they need by providing additional protections to health care workers who refuse to provide treatment because of their moral or religious beliefs.
The one thing that characterized my childhood in the Bronx has been fire. Growing up there, it was clear that the borough hadn’t been, wasn’t, and perhaps never will be a priority for New York City officials.
Since her release earlier this year, Manning has been speaking about issues like gender identity and surveillance in the press and at colleges and universities. On November 15, I had the chance to see her speak at Wesleyan University.