Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women...

After four years of Taliban control, the Security Council is meeting on Afghanistan, and there is still no clear U.S. policy.

The professor and researcher has watched gender quotas transform the political landscape in Mexico over the last two decades. Here's what she thinks feminists in the U.S. can learn from their example....

Where do we go from here – as a race?

On Saturday, nearly 20,000 supporters of the Islamist organization Hefazat-e-Islam rallied in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to protest, among other issues, proposed government reforms to...

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A spate of 11 femicides in Italy so far this year is making global headlines and prompting calls for “cultural rebellion.”  Yet femicide is far worse in the U.S., claiming thousands of lives a year, a...

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March is Women’s History Month in the USA, a time to recognize the significant contributions of women who have left a lasting impact on society. In honor

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Ban violates 2024 voter-approved amendment protecting abortion rights. Ban violates 2024 voter-approved amendment protecting abortion rights.

Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died, her family said Monda...

Reproductiverights.gov, which was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2022, was offline Tuesday morning.

Reproductive rights, women's rights, voting rights and abortion access are on the decline—but the are essential to a healthy U.S. democracy.

Nevaeh Crain, 18, died after three emergency room visits without proper medical care during a miscarriage. The teen was six months pregnant and doctors said they couldn’t intervene until confirming “f...

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his order that the law violates Georgia's Constitution, finding that “liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in...

Women in Afghanistan are enduring a situation unlike anything seen in countries around the world.

The ban was the state’s second attempt to block the procedure. But the judge ruled the state constitution gives women a “fundamental right to choose abortion.”

By denying and restricting access to abortion to millions of people since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 with

Iowa’s strict abortion law went into effect Monday, immediately prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.

The Dobbs decision and recent legal actions in Arizona, such as the temporary reinstatement and subsequent reversal of a pre-1901 restrictive abortion law, have severely disrupted women's access to re...

Abortion is a human right and a vital part of health care. All pregnant people, no matter who they are or where they live, must have the freedom to make their own healthcare decisions, including wheth...

Afghanistan’s current state of affairs poses many complications for women, especially in the areas of politics and society. Women’s rights are blatantly violated, and their overall development is...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday proposed offering pregnant women 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments, which she said would make New York the first state in the U....

Following the favorable adoption of our recommendations by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in November of 2023, during the fifth periodic review of the United States, the ERA Coalition and i...