Women

Party mergers and other systemic problems have buried the country’s once-vaunted female political leadership.

Malnutrition is passed from one generation to the next between mother and child—unless someone commits to stopping the deadly cycle.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration has boldly reoriented its foreign policy toward gender equality.

Some of their ideas are effective, some are strange—and some could make the problem even worse.

Leaving thousands of detained Islamic State supporters and their families in poorly guarded camps poses a national security threat for Europe and the United States.

Ahead of elections, politicians on both sides are acknowledging the need to empower 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.