List of Sex and Gender articles
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lgbt crop Lithuania Opens Door to Gay Chechens Fleeing Persecution, While U.S. Slams It Shut
Survivors of prison camps in Russia are looking for some place to go.
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TONGO, DR CONGO - NOVEMBER 04: (ISRAEL OUT) Refugees wait near their shelters in the village of Tongo, in the hills outside Goma, on November 4, 2008 in North Kivu province,Democratic Republic of Congo. Fighting has continued in the region occupied by rebel commander Laurent Nkunda, despite a ceasefire brokered last week, leaving outside observers fearful of "another Rwanda tragedy" in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) To ‘Protect Life’, State Department Rolls Out Women’s Health Policy Critics Call a ‘Death Warrant’
Battle lines are drawn over the State Department’s sweeping new restrictions on aid for international women’s health organizations that perform or advocate abortions.
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LAKE CHAD, CHAD - JULY 10: Girls in colorful headscarves sit in a classroom in their tribal village in central Africa on July 10, 2007 around Lake Chad, Chad. (Photo by Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images) In Trump’s Plan to Gut Foreign Aid, Battle Lines Drawn Over Global Women’s Issues
Even the Republican Congress doesn't seem to think the budget cuts are a good idea.
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AH-1W_UH-1Y_take_off_from_Bastion_Afghanistan_2009 The Marines United scandal should be seen as a national security issue
The degradation of women in the military reflected by the Marines United scandal is not just a women’s rights issue but a national security concern.
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An Indonesian Sharia police whips a man during a public caning ceremony outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province on September 18, 2015. Three women and 14 men arrested for sexual offenses and gambling were caned in front of the mosque in full view of the public following the Friday prayer. Aceh is the only province of Indonesia that is enforcing the Islamic Sharia law and violators are punished by public caning. AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN (Photo credit should read CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images) Amid Rising Fundamentalism, Indonesia May Sentence Gay Men to 100 Lashes
Indonesia’s once-vaunted religious pluralism is ceding ground to sharia law.
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Fa18_hook Looking back on my Navy career: From the Tailhook scandal to Marines United
It has taken less than a month for the “Marines United” revenge porn story to fade.
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This photo taken on April 23, 2013 shows two woman feeding a baby at a temporary settlement in Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China's devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images) United States to Cut Funding to U.N. Population Fund Over Claims U.N. Calls ‘Erroneous’
Um: Is an amendment from 1985 being used to cut funding for reproductive health for 80 percent of the world's population?
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, from right, Jessica Johnson, president of Johnson Security Bureau Inc., President Trump and Dyan Gibbens, founder and chief executive officer of Trumbull Unmanned, attend a meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Investors on Monday further unwound trades initiated in November resting on the idea that the election of Trump and a Republican Congress meant smooth passage of an agenda that featured business-friendly tax cuts and regulatory changes. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Presidency Is an Assault on Women
Don’t be fooled by talk of women's empowerment. His white, male, chauvinistic administration is setting equality back decades — and making the world a more dangerous place.
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Book Talk, Part II: “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf”
From inspiring young women leaders to forging relationships with the hardest hitters on the international stage, how will Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s legacy live on?
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finalword Advice From Pussy Riot: How to Defy Putin and Trump
What the Russian and U.S. presidents have in common and how to defeat “all those other assholes just like them.”
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Thousands of women Pro-Choice protesters on Debnicki Square, in Krakow, during a 'Black protest'. Women nationwide strike took place all around the country and it is the response against the proposed tightening of the law on abortion in Poland. Polish women are demanding respect for their right to free choice and the freedom to decide about their own bodies and lives. On Monday, 3 October 2016, in Krakow, Poland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Can Women Really Revolutionize Politics With Protest?
From Poland’s “Black Monday” strike to women shedding the compulsory hijab on social media, there is power in sisterhood and solidarity.
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Nuria Gollo, the head of the Women Advocacy and Development Organization in Marsabit, poses for a portrait on her community's sacred land in northern Kenya. Research shows that over 90% of women in Marsabit county have suffered female genital mutiliation. Despite the practice being outlawed in 2008, it is still carried out in secret among many local communities. Guardian of the Girl-Child
In a Kenyan town, one woman seeks justice for victims of sexual violence neglected by an inept government and overburdened police force. To those in her community she is a meddler, avenger, and last resort. For the women she helps, she is nothing less than a savior.
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MANDO, Ghana: Students stand in front of a chalkboard where a diagram has been drawn showing how to use a female condom. At the local Methodist high school in Mando, a sexual health club meets weekly, and students are grilled on how to use a condom, the difference between short-acting contraceptives like pills and long-acting ones like IUDs, and why abstinence is the only 100 percent way to prevent pregnancy. The past decade has brought significant progress in making abortion safer and more accessible across Ghana, coming hand in hand with a marked uptick in contraception use and easier access to family planning measures than ever before. Abortion remains stigmatized, taboo, and often clandestine, but in big cities, if not quite yet in the country’s more rural reaches, it is slowly being talked about more openly, and women are better able to get safe procedures. But that progress may have just hit a wall, in the form of an American president bowing to domestic anti-abortion forces and implementing restrictive policies that will cut off U.S. aid to any foreign organization that so much as talks about abortion. This new policy, an executive memorandum known alternately as the Global Gag Rule or the Mexico City Policy and signed by President Donald Trump on his fourth day in office, yanks any foreign aid whatsoever -- including money that pays for contraception, safe pregnancy and delivery, childhood vaccinations, and treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, or other infectious diseases -- from organizations abroad that offer abortions with their own non-U.S. money, refer their clients for safe, legal abortions, or advocate for abortion rights in their own countries. (Photo by Nichole Sobecki) The Global Gag Rule: America’s Deadly Export
The policy that plucks U.S. dollars from any international health care initiative tied to abortion has been reinstated by President Trump — and a lot of African women are going to die as a result.
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A young girl looks at a star gazing app on an ipad during the partial solar eclipse at Hatch Warren near Basingstoke, southwest of London on March 20, 2015. The Basingstoke Astronomical Society held an informal meeting where people could look through different telescopes at the eclipse. However, the skies over Basingstoke were cloudy and the solar eclipse was not visible although it got noticeably darker. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS (Photo credit should read ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images) Gender Hack
The dearth of women in the tech world is cultural — and therefore entirely reversible.
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rodriguez The Other Women’s Movement
They voted for Donald Trump. Their European sisters are supporting nationalist movements of their own. And they’re not who you think they are.
