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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…
Eighty years ago, an organization named CAREāwhich stands for Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhereāresponded to worldwide hunger in the aftermath of World War…
For the last 50 years, every institution in Chileās public sector has told us over and over again that individuals succeed through…
This is a call to action for men. How can so many of us stay silent in the face of an ongoing…
Pampa de Pocho is a rural area in the province of CĆ³rdoba, in central Argentina, with no piped gas or electricity. Women…
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