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.
A group of researchers have turned to traditional coffee ceremonies to help stem intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ethiopia and educate about HIV in the country’s more rural areas.
Taymor spoke with WMC’s The FBomb about the film and what audiences can take from Steinem’s extraordinary example.
We are proud to introduce IDAR/E, a new online channel for us to take a deep dive into telling the U.S. story, in all of its truth; to highlight voices who are asking us to look beyond runaway headlines and trending hashtags.
Reporters are experiencing trauma from covering ICE’s treatment of immigrants. But who's talking about it?
The corporate sector has refused to be ahead of the curve in diversity even though we’ve been sounding the alarm all along.
I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.
A 75-foot mural by Chanel Miller is among the works displayed in the museum's new Wilbur Gallery.
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.
Over the past two years, Villaseñor has become a leader in the youth climate movement, joining Greta Thunberg's school strike and founding Earth Uprising.
While many people are aware of America’s history of suppressing the votes of racial minority communities, it’s a pattern that affects other minorities, too — especially trans voters.
Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.
The Al Hassan case has the potential to shine light on the unique harm perpetrators commit against individuals based on their gender, which enforces patriarchal social norms and increases the potency of their crimes. It could also chart a path forward for international criminal law to define gender.
Some of the workers at Zimbabwe’s Hwange Colliery Company haven't been paid wages for years. Fearing reprisal if they tried to fight for them, their wives, mothers, and sisters have adopted their grievances, protesting for the wages and laying sporadic sieges at the mine’s gates.
“I think it has become clear on a national level that there was and is extremely poor leadership."
Gender inequality and stringent cultural beliefs left women most vulnerable to the HIV epidemic. With the coronavirus, Malawi mustn't repeat the same mistakes.
Sophie Beren believes that "from conversation, real change can happen."
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) doles out between $4 million and $10 million to controversial faux-abortion clinics known as crisis pregnancy centers.
Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.
The pandemic has further revealed how workers in the global garment industry — especially women, who make up nearly three-quarters of garment workers — are sacrificed as economic collateral, and how fast fashion prioritizes profits over people.
How can we build on the strengths of our common experiences, while acknowledging our differences, to demand change?
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