The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.
As COP 28 continues in Dubai, women have a larger role in the proceedings than ever: Women’s participation in national delegations to the UN COP climate conferences rose from 30 to 35 percent from 2012 to 2022, UN Women reports. Yet this week, the organization has released an alarming report on feminist climate justice.
On February 7, 2024, Amer will release their debut picture book, Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! which likens the correct use of one’s pronouns to the aforementioned feelings of euphoria.
Villagers often work in the mines, one of the only employers in Budhpura, and nearly all of them are eventually diagnosed with silicosis, a fatal and incurable lung disease. With their husbands gone and no alternative income sources to support themselves and their children, widows join the same profession that killed their husbands.
Kenya’s Forest and Wildlife Services are carrying out brutal and forceful evictions of the indigenous Ogiek people from their homes in the Mau Forest, in the country’s Rift Valley.
As repayment has resumed for millions of borrowers, an expert on the student debt crisis considers the racialized and gendered nature of student debt
In most present-day Igbo communities, caste ranking is a core concern for both families and couples.
The recent earthquakes in western Afghanistan and ongoing aftershocks have been devastating.
True equality has been and continues to be denied to women. We know because we recently experienced it as participants in the first co-ed Boys and Girls State program.
Chloe Domont’s film is not just a story about terrible people doing terrible things — it’s also a commentary on the danger of abusive work cultures that dehumanize the people in them.
As a 16-year-old teenage girl, it seems that ever since those disgusting revelations were made public, social media pressure hasn’t abated but has, in fact, grown even worse for my friends and me.
Despite early hopes for progress, the report that came out of the gathering mentioned neither LGBTIQ+ people nor the question of the ordination of women.
On Tuesday, officials in Florida’s Miami-Dade County rejected a bill that would have created the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States. In the face of our ever-increasing climate challenges, such regulations can save lives. But there are few laws in place around the world that protect people who work outdoors, let alone dedicated offices to protection from heat.
A Colombian peace court is opening a new legal case that could bring justice for the first time to thousands of victims of gender-based crimes committed by the FARC and the military during decades of bitter conflict.
The risk of intimate partner violence is consistently higher among women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa than among those living without it — even for pregnant women, who are often first informed of their status during prenatal screenings.
Organizations that provide services and information have reported digital suppression of abortion information: “The Fight for Abortion Access Is Moving Online.”
While the world is lagging in its promises to slow global warming, a new report finds that there is not only a problem with meeting goals set by the Paris Agreement, but that there is also major gap — between $194 billion and $366 billion per year — in the finances required to hit important climate targets.
The effects of a series of earthquakes measuring a 6.3 magnitude that hit Afghanistan in early October have been devastating.
In the remote Himalayan village of Pahalgam, Zubaida Begum, a resilient 45-year-old mother of three, faces a daily battle against nature’s capricious wrath. Living in a mountainous place where the elements can be unforgiving, she stands as a beacon of courage, safeguarding her family's survival in the rugged terrain.
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