In March, 2020 the world as we knew it changed. Nations worldwide started locking down and governments began mandating masking and physical distancing, while recommending robust hand hygiene and ...

The Twilight Saga is back on Netflix, and like many millennials and Gen Zers, I’ve fallen into a full-blown rewatch spiral. But this time, it hit differently. When I watch Bella Swan wasting away, ...

Author and International Relations expert Dr. Yvette Alt Miller, in her recent column in Aish, stated that around the time that Sheryl Sandberg’s documentary about the October 7 rapes and murders of ...

When Rosie Couture, co-founder of the youth-led movement Generation Ratify, whose mission is to advance gender equality in the US, arrived in Seneca Falls for the Equal Rights Amendment’s Centennial ...

Disabled talents’ success in winning awards has sent a powerful message that times have changed for viewers and the ways entertainment is presented. Although films in the 1900s and early 2000s mainly ...

In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age for minors that have parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v ...

Americans have spent the past 45 years fighting over whether abortion should be legal. I spent the past 10 years trying to figure out how it matters. I traveled to Chile and El Salvador to see what ...

Huda Shaarawi, one of Egypt’s first feminists, was part of the movement to end Britain’s occupation after World War I. In this excerpt from her grandmother’s biography, “Casting Off the Veil,” Sania ...

After withstanding years of silence, Cypriot families–both Greek and Turkish–are beginning to learn about the relatives they lost to political violence and to reclaim their remains. Sevgul Uludag has ...

Lesbian advocates in Jamaica are reaching out to the world, bringing public attention to conditions that make them fearful, even in their own neighborhoods. (WOMENSENEWS)–While gay rights activists in ...

As the U.S. government prepares to prosecute its first case under a federal law prohibiting FGM, activists are pushing for better legal protection of girls who can face the disfiguring practice when ...

In a groundbreaking ruling, a New York appellate court awarded a divorced couple’s entire assets–$17 million–to the wife because she suffered egregious violence at the hands of her then-husband.