Women

How the U.S. government is failing women in foreign policy.

In Bamiyan, an all-female demining team provides jobs and hope.

In the Balkan wars, women were targets. In postwar governments, they’ve been pushed out of sight.

Big investors are starting to use a new metric to assess financial risk: rates of gender-based violence.

The mainland’s new nationalism comes with a heavy dose of old patriarchy.

When the United States takes the helm of the group next year, it will have an opportunity to do even better.

Advocacy groups see the upcoming election as an opportunity to boost the number of women in senior positions.

The youth vote is becoming increasingly important in Argentina, but the leading presidential candidates are deliberately avoiding the issue that matters most to them.

On the podcast: The filmmaker Nanfu Wang tells the harrowing story of her own family’s one-child ordeal.

On the podcast: The filmmaker Alexandria Bombach followed the Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad for the film “On Her Shoulders.”

A transcript of the nominee’s remarks at the European Parliament plenary session.

Germans welcomed an unprecedented number of Middle Easterners into their country—but not always into their workplaces.

Democratic presidential candidates—and a new group of wonks—are committed to fixing rampant gender inequalities in the national security workplace.

The U.S. government has just released a highly anticipated human rights report that whitewashes the effects of its own policies.

Since 2016, the campaign to leave the European Union has been led primarily by men. The remaining candidates for prime minister are all male—and they're not talking about the grave consequences of Brexit for women.

Europe’s wave of burqa bans comes crashing down in the Americas.

The latest refugees from the kingdom fled to Tbilisi, Georgia, and spoke to Foreign Policy before seeking asylum in the West.

Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions.

They helped propel Armenia’s Velvet Revolution. Now, they’re turning their attention to diplomacy with Azerbaijan.

From Khartoum to Warsaw, demonstrators are demanding basic equality while the Trump administration wages a war on women’s rights.