The new transitional house offers holistic support for survivors trying to regain agency of their lives in a city where resources are still severely limited.
Mother’s Day is coming up, and oftentimes for Black folks it means families celebrate their mothers as superwoman. However, while we honor and celebrate mothers for all their beautiful nurturing and labor, we must not get caught up in the idea that mothers should do it all and alone. After all, even a superhero needs a squad.
Congress held a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Tuesday, the first in 36 years. The development comes amidst a renewed effort on the part of state and federal Democratic legislators to push for the amendment’s ratification.
As lawmakers in many places turn their backs on women, new research shows that employees want companies to take on the fight for their reproductive freedom.
The United Nations passed a watered-down version of a resolution to end sexual violence in war on April 23 after bowing to pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate all references to sexual and reproductive health and protections for gay and transgender victims.
A groundbreaking poll finds that women of color voters have deep concerns about the state of the U.S. — and are determined to use their power for change.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.
A team of scholars is investigating why women's incarceration is increasing even as overall imprisonment rates have been declining.
The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.
Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.
The filmmakers hope that the documentary, a devastating portrayal of rape culture, will be used to fuel change.
The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.
Women now hold 102 seats in the House, the most ever. But thanks to Trump, 2018 was the political Year of the White Man.
This attack, like almost all mass shootings, was perpetrated by a man.
This month is a good time to recognize the urgency of questions about what it means to be a woman.
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