It’s time for family courts to halt this harmful precedent. For the safety of children, and to ensure the child has a pathway ...

Supply chains are human chains. When they’re built on silence and disposability, they collapse. Addressing gender-based violence is not charity. It’s justice. And it’s long overdue. Because no audit, ...

The disparity is most acute for diseases that primarily affect women.

The Democrats are making the government shutdown about healthcare inequities. But even if they get their way, any budget is likely to perpetuate longstanding disparities in healthcare funding. I’m not ...

The Netherlands’ oldest political party has come under fire for not allowing women to run for parliament. Lawsuits, funding cuts and one woman working from within have not managed to change the policy ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—When I was 18 years old, I fell in love. I had met a man near the University of Oregon campus who seemed to love me as much as I loved him. Even though I was a promising high school ...

Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions. Will the United States become the ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

Restricted and repetitive behaviors, along with strong preferences for sameness in both behavior and environment, are noted as hallmark features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Structured routines ...

Women in this facility endure dehumanizing procedures that contradict every value espoused in the Governor’s river of hope-filled sentiments. It is the height of irony. In the same month officially ...

MEXICO CITY (WOMENSENEWS)–The second time Deborah Alvarez was deported from the United States in 2005, after she was detained for prostitution solicitation tickets, she knew she would have to stay in ...