Sex and Gender

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.

The Tagalog word eludes Western concepts of gender and sexuality—and offers a window into LGBTQ+ Filipinos’ quest for acceptance.

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.

“Now, I see that even the woman has a life.”

Human rights and humanitarian NGOs should pay attention to Kyiv’s sex-selective martial law.

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.

James Kirchick chronicles how the persecution of gay men in Washington tragically altered 20th-century foreign policy.

The recent LGBTQ film tries to give life to the complications of queer desire. It falters.

Inside the worldwide fight for equality.

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.

Plus: Why the economy today reminds us of the 1970s—and why it doesn’t.

Automatically bundling equality and democracy has led to the rise of “genderwashing.”

Washington’s curtailment of reproductive rights at home and in U.S. foreign aid programs has historically had dramatic effects on women’s rights across the continent.