In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

Military service is one of the nation’s most rewarding yet consequential careers, offering purpose and honor while exposing those who serve to profound and lasting health risks. For women, these ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

I was working in Haiti in the weeks after the January 2010 earthquake, doing what humanitarian workers do: distributing water, coordinating shelter, running logistics. I thought I knew what the women ...

A few weeks ago, as the East Coast braced for snow, Mayor Zohran Mamdani encouraged New Yorkers to stay home and read Heated Rivalry, a steamy enemies-to-lovers hockey romance. I stayed home. But ...

Our organization, Survivor Justice Center, honored Dolores Huerta at our Bridge to Justice Gala last May. We honored her for her legacy for championing rights of others, and yet we now have learned ...

It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened. Within the next few months, The Gambian Supreme Court will make a ruling ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—If there is a single through-line in my life and in my philanthropy, it is marginalization. It has been with me from my earliest memory, and it has defined the many causes to which I ...

Throughout human history people have feared and been discomfited by “the other.” As a life-long optimist, I don’t believe we’re doomed but I believe we’re in extremely serious trouble and must unite ...

During COVID, I lost a loved one who was only 25 years old and had just given birth to her only child, at a time when hospital visitation was restricted to a single person for only a few hours a day.