Workers report sexual coercion and poor conditions at the Hawassa Industrial Park.
A year after the Taliban takeover, women took to the streets defiantly to demand bread, work, and freedom.
Western powers and donors created a category that consigned the women of Afghanistan to perpetual victimhood—while all parties instrumentalized them for political ends.
Tafsir Siyaposh has spent the past year pressing the Taliban on women’s rights by besting them at their own theological jousts on live television.
A new Amnesty report lays out the Taliban playbook for erasing half the population: electrocutions, beatings, detentions, and disappearances.
Alleged assaults by musicians have sparked a larger conversation on gender violence in the country.
In a country where one woman dies every two days from a botched abortion, the internet is sometimes the only option.
The decision is part of a broader trend of domestic dysfunction that undermines U.S. President Joe Biden’s democracy agenda.
Global anti-abortion activists have waved off criticism by pointing to their support for LGBTQ rights. But U.S. conservatives may be too extreme for that tactic.
Almost 50 years ago, the United States liberalized abortion laws, and the world followed suit. Today, it joins Iran, North Korea, and Russia in rolling back reproductive rights.
While American mothers can’t find enough formula, a new WHO report details why parents are getting too much in other parts of the world.
Automatically bundling equality and democracy has led to the rise of “genderwashing.”
In the absence of Western support, their lives are in danger as they struggle to flee.
Stereotypes “permit and exacerbate conflict,” experts say.
The sudden about-face could undercut the Taliban’s hopes for international recognition.
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With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of a partial mobilization of reservists to bolster his forces in Ukraine, Russia’s invasion has potentially entered an even more destructive...Show more
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The EU and Russia are losing their competitive edge. That leaves the United States and China to duke it out.
Italy’s politics is a constant cycle of failed populist waves.
The West can only counter Putin’s nuclear threats with ruinous threats of its own.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision has changed the race, but foreign policy is on the ballot, too.
