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It is an arresting image: On the Fourth of July, a lone, young Black woman sits on a train filled with White…
Itās ironic that the U.S. federal budget was signed on the cusp of World Population Day, which is meant to raise awareness of…
For Bangladesh, a country at the absolute frontline of the global climate crisis, adaptation is not merely a technical fix; it is…
At 2 p.m. every Wednesday, about 15 to 20 women who form a Mahila Panchayat, or Womenās Council, gather in a modest,…
On a sunny morning in June, about two dozen people walk the land of Soul Fire Farm in Rensselaer County in Upstate…
Throughout Argentina, Ni Una Menos is commemorated every June in a series of marches that demand an end to femicides, gender-based violence,…
More than 1,250 Israeli women and nine Israeli civil society organizations have sent an open letter to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun following…
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to…
In the floodplains of northern Bihar, where seasonal migration has long shaped village life and women rarely handled money beyond household survival,…
No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic…
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