Among the horrors of the climate crisis is drought. In Somalia, in particular, it’s become too dry to grow crops, sustain livestock, or find fresh drinking water.
About 75% of Muslim women in Indonesia today wear the hijab, up from only 5% in the late 1990s, according to HRW.
Malaysia witnessed significant progress in its fight against sexual harassment in July.
As an advocate and a survivor, I know how hard it can be for many survivors to find real joy amid the giant cloud of darkness that comes after experiencing violence.
Earlier this summer, the buzz for the upcoming show Ahsoka was palpable at the Star Wars Convention in Anaheim.
Across South Asia, women praying in mosques is considered a taboo, but a group of Muslim women from all across India are working to challenge those biases and increase women’s access to mosques.
Francia Márquez, the country’s first Black woman elected to the vice presidency, is part of the progressive movement taking on a right-wing elite.
In a post-Roe v. Wade America, methods to prevent pregnancy are more important than ever.
It’s vital for young people to find characters that we identify with so that we can not only feel confident in our own identities, but also become more accepting of identities different than our own.
Perhaps it is no surprise that the people involved in that onslaught have found their ways into positions in which they can “legally” make decisions about the Amazon’s precious trees and fauna.
Advocates in countries that have achieved legalization of abortion in recent years are making it clear that they stand with Americans in efforts to restore reproductive rights and access.
Disabled women seem to exist in a world where sexuality is either denied to us even when we enthusiastically call for it or bestowed upon us even when we vehemently don’t want it.
Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), Indonesia’s state-owned railway company, announced on June 21 that it will now blacklist sexual harassers from using its services
Many Brazilian organizations know that diversity is good business and have been fighting for minorities’ employability for years.
Why didn’t I stop and take a break? Because no one else around me was.
Afghan-born Meena Asadi has had to upend her life several times to survive.
Our country is supposedly the “land of the free” and yet women’s choices about their reproductive health and autonomy are being forced by a government that is in turn influenced by certain religions.
There is now evidence that can be used by countries who want to sue the heaviest polluters in the world: the United States, China, Brazil, Russia, and India.
Cancel culture is the practice of ostracizing someone whose comments or actions transgress societal boundaries.
On June 20, a joint investigation from The Intercept Brazil and the website Portal Catarinas found that an 11-year-old (who has remained anonymous) had not only been denied an abortion after becoming pregnant as a result of rape but was also separated from her mother, who was vocal about terminating the pregnancy, and sent to foster care.
Even before Roe v. Wade was overturned, reproductive choice in the United States was reserved for those with the appropriate social and financial resources.
Anti-Muslim violence and hate speech have become normalized under the ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but activists say that the attacks against India’s Muslims have ratcheted up over the last year — particularly, against Muslim women.
In 2019, a Nepali woman named Kanchhi Maya Tamang used her climb of Mount Everest to spread awareness about climate change. Her reasoning: “When we speak from the top of the world, our voices can be heard louder,” said Tamang, 31, who has summited Everest three times.
- All Categories
- Arts and culture
- Body image and body standards
- Disability
- Economy
- Education
- Environment
- Feminism
- Free Speech
- Gender-based violence
- Girls
- Gloria Steinem
- Health
- Immigration
- International
- Jane Fonda
- LGBTQIA
- Media
- Misogyny
- Online harassment
- Politics
- Race/Ethnicity
- Religion
- Robin Morgan
- Science and tech
- Sports
- Violence against women
- WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program