The Women’s March had its first historic rally in January 2017, and organized its most recent march on October 17.
As the United States creeps towards Gilead, the people of Chile voted to rewrite their constitution with the mandated participation of 50% women.
Oquita's undocumented status has not stopped her from advocating for immigration justice and fighting to defund and eventually abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Sandra Guimarães is a Brazilian activist for human and animal rights.
In 2019, 16-year-old Thrisha Senthilnathan started an organization devoted to preventing and spreading awareness about sexual harassment in schools and colleges.
On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the long-awaited Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled in New York City’s Central Park.
OMAS GEGEN RECHTS, or “Grandmothers Against the Extreme Right,” challenges the revival of far-right extremism with personal histories inextricably tied to theirs and their parents' experiences with similar movements in the past against fascism, misogyny, and racism.
Sophie Beren believes that "from conversation, real change can happen."
How can we build on the strengths of our common experiences, while acknowledging our differences, to demand change?
Autoimmune diseases affect approximately 8% of the population, but 78% of those who live with these conditions are women. I’m one of those women.
Women survivors of sexual torture under Augusto Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship in Chile never felt that the horrors suffered during that time have ever been adequately confronted, allowing his legacy to remain intact. Then his relative was appointed to a political role protecting women's rights.
Since the University of Zimbabwe was founded in 1952, no woman had ever been elected to the position of student representative council president. That changed in 2019, when 22-year-old Abiona Mataranyika was elected to the position.
When an Instagram private group of twenty schoolboys from Delhi's elite schools fantasizing and degrading their female classmates went viral, it was supposed to offer a cultural reckoning for India's teens about misogyny and gendered violence. Then, it took a dark turn.
A 2016 report revealed that one in five adult Brazilian women has had at least one abortion, which amounts to at least half a million women every year. Given that the practice is illegal, the number may be much higher.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of women’s reproductive rights in a 5-4 decision on June 29 by striking down a Louisiana law that would have limited the state to a single abortion clinic.
On February 4, a Pan-African feminist lawyer (who would like to remain anonymous) decided she was tired of seeing manels day after day on Kenyan TV stations.
When I was 15 years old, I figured that if I wasn't accepted in any of the clubs at school, I might as well start my own, so I started a club that focused on empowering girls.
While “reproductive rights” emphasizes securing women’s legal access to reproductive care, reproductive justice emphasizes an intersectional framework that prioritizes bodily autonomy.
TikTok has repeatedly, purposefully censored content it deems unattractive while allowing highly publicized sexist, violent, and hateful content to remain.
Anti-choice protests were staged at clinics in North Carolina; Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; and Michigan, at which protesters similarly disregarded social distancing guidelines.
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.
The life I was choosing for myself was almost on the line. And abortion would have saved it.
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.
Experts say censorship of reading material in schools happens more than many people realize.
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