When a woman serves time in prison, it takes a toll on both her future and her children. New sentencing alternatives, including those that keep families together, are starting to gain momentum.
There are various forms of violence that women and girls experience, but intimate partner violence is, by far, the most common, with one in three women affected globally. And while a common approach to designing prevention programs for intimate partner violence includes targeting men and women in relationships, new evidence shows that the approach may be misguided.
In this essay, based on a commentary from the November 21 episode of WMC Live With Robin Morgan, the WMC cofounder and author of The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism (Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster) exposes the ways in which the myth of the male hero makes violence not only possible but inevitable. WMC Live is available by podcast at iTunes.
A new partnership of the NoVo Foundation and the Goren Group, a woman-owned real estate development firm, plans to transform the site of a notorious women's prison into a new center for activism and collaboration.
At the annual Women's Media Awards gala, more than 350 people gathered to honor trailblazers—and to look ahead to the next decade of making girls and women visible and powerful in media.
Today, as part of the UN Human Rights Council’s “Universal Periodic Review” process, Burma will be questioned by every country in the world on the nooks and crannies of human rights abuses happening inside its borders
As Veterans Day approaches, advocates are calling for improvements in care for women veterans, especially those tho are survivors of sexual assault.
In many regions, access to public marketplaces is a must for women's lives and livelihoods. Advocates are working on new ways to make these spaces safer for women and girls.
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