More Than A Magazine, A Movement
The highest court in Poland ruled that obtaining abortions for fetal abnormalities violates the Polish Constitution, thus tightening abortion restrictions in one of the strictest countries on abortion in Europe.
The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic, called Thursday a “sad day for women’s rights.”
Twenty-five years ago, the Beijing Declaration put a flag in the sand for gender equality. But key unfulfilled promises remain.
Globally, we must do more—and we actually have the answer.
Lawmakers and advocates are calling on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Trump administration to withdraw from the Saudi-hosted “W20” women’s summit.
Led by Rep. Schakowsky, the co-signers of a Congressional letter join a growing global campaign to stand up for women who are facing torture, forced separation from their children, arbitrary detention and more in Saudi Arabia.
The lack of women in elected office is not the result of a lack of qualified women, but our electoral system which continues to hamper women’s attempts to run, win, serve and lead at equal rates to men.
Writing about the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, Nelli Sargsyan argues, “the multi-ethnic potential of love ethic can help us heal our traumatized imagination, as the work of feminists across the borders in the region shows.”
Every year on October 11 we celebrate girls for being their wonderful selves, with the right to thrive and to realize their utmost potential. Girls are our future.
Yet this year, from war zones to refugee settings to the countryside to poor urban neighborhoods, girls all over the globe are at risk.
On the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action—which identified twelve critical areas in the advancement of women’s rights—it’s a good time to reflect on our progress, but also identify the goals that have yet to be realized.
Standing up to discrimination against women and girls means standing up for all women and girls in all their diversity and their representative organizations fighting for racial justice, LGBTIQ inclusion, indigenous rights, disability rights, and climate justice.
The Sex, Gender and COVID-19 project tracks gender differences in infection rates and health outcomes for COVID-19. Launched as a joint project between Global Health 50/50,The International Center for Research on Women and the African Population and Health Research Center, the dashboard provides access to data on 173 countries.
Multiple U.S. government agencies and actors are failing to live up to their commitments to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights across global health assistance—for the third straight year.
“We are at a tipping point. On one hand, we have the 25th anniversary initiatives and global health, feminist and social justice movements. On the other, we have the in-built systemic inequities and legislative obstacles these movements face.”
