As the end date of the Trump administration’s foreign aid ‘stop-work’ order approaches, just how dependent were women and ...

Kenya received more than 60% of its aid for family planning and reproductive health care from the U.S. Cuts to USAID risk not ...

Zahra was known in the refugee community for running a women’s center, where she provided support for sexual violence ...

African women who leave home to work as nannies or housekeepers in the Persian Gulf know they’re risking their lives. The influx of reports detailing unpaid wages, sexual assault and – at times – ...

I’m sure you feel it too: the gnawing sense of overwhelm? Of life coming at you too fast; the unrelenting onslaught of bad news; the transformation of your family Whatsapp group into a non-stop stream ...

Every March, as part of International Women’s Month, global leaders gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a two-week session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The ...

If you’re a woman in America, Washington, D.C., is, apparently, the place to be. Women in the nation’s capital have more power and influence than their sisters in any of the 50 states. They have more ...

Against this backdrop, and on the sidelines of CSW69, the annual meeting of the United Nations to discuss gender equality, I spoke to Nelly Mbangu and Claudine Tsongo of Sauti Ya Mama, a Congolese ...

Though they can be life-saving, growing research suggests that cesarian sections, or C-sections, are vastly overused in the United States, especially among first-time moms who are low-risk. At best, ...

GOLINI, KENYA – Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and ...