A cocktail of structural barriers with law enforcement and throughout the judicial process — such as drawn-out, humiliating investigations and trials — ensures that justice for victims remains evasive.
Reporters spend a lot of time focusing on the Christian right but ignore the masses of us committed to a ministry of justice.
The pandemic-related lockdown has exacerbated the isolation of India’s queer youth.
The Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy published her own story. The South buried it.
The need for more realistic and powerful narratives about Black Australian life was a big reason why Haj decided to study film.
A new study predicts that there will be 6.8 million fewer female births compared to male births in India between 2017 to 2030, due to the country’s strong preference for sons and falling fertility rates.
Mexican investigative journalist Lydia Cacho hosts a new podcast called The Red Note, which breaks down the multiple layers of Juárez’s government and culture that have allowed these killings to continue without justice for victims or their families.
As some media moved to put a box around the Latino vote, activists, leaders and journalists pushed back.
I was able to conduct my very own social experiment, in my mind, of how people react after they are face-to-face with part of a woman’s body they have been told is shameful.
Now that Justice Amy Coney Barrett has taken her seat, the ultraconservative court appears poised to curtail the Affordable Care Act and reproductive rights. The damage can be addressed with action at the local level.
An interview with Anna Simone, a sociologist and a professor at the University of Roma Tre, about how women and men are scrutinized differently by the Italian media and public.
Media coverage of sexual violence in India, both domestically and globally, has ignored the vast majority of rapes. Obscured from public view by the media, those stories that don’t make national and global headlines face near-insurmountable hurdles to justice.
Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.
The Women’s March had its first historic rally in January 2017, and organized its most recent march on October 17.
Zayed’s documentary, Lift Like a Girl, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on November 11.
As the United States creeps towards Gilead, the people of Chile voted to rewrite their constitution with the mandated participation of 50% women.
Activist Erika Andiola discusses how this response avoids fundamental change, and how a Biden/Harris administration can send the right message on immigration.
The crises that compel refugees to attempt the dangerous journey to Europe haven't ended. Many, including pregnant women, continue to risk drowning, meeting violent pushbacks at sea and land borders, living in unsafe conditions in the camps, and facing racist violence and discrimination.
A new movement has sparked public discourse among Iranian women as they take to social media with their own #MeTooIran moments.
The jury is still out on the impact of his comments on the Vatican, and at a time when Senate Republicans are pushing a conservative Catholic nominee.
Cultures of institutions are almost always a product of not just their founders, but those who carry on their legacies. In the United States, the medical profession was founded by white men, and today, most physicians are privileged white men.
Campaigning during the pandemic has forced candidates to innovate and improvise.
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