The proliferation of attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, voting rights, and immigration have prompted activists to intensify coalition-building work.
Her confirmation hearings showed an extraordinary contrast between Jackson’s worthiness and judicial temperament, and Republican senators’ tirades and temper tantrums.
As the U.S. tax filing deadline approaches, three recent reports reveal the tax law’s disparate impact on women and other groups.
This week’s Bostock decision creates stronger legal ground for more wins in housing, education, and health care, and in overturning the transgender military ban.
The COVID-19 shutdown is wreaking havoc on child visitations and family reunification.
Human rights advocates are decrying the Trump administration's policy of requiring asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings.
Writer Alison Friedman reflects on what Christine Blasey Ford's courage has meant to many women.
Five decades after that contentious moment in the fight for equality, it is still legal for employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees just because of their identity in most parts of this country. That may soon finally change.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that includes the renewal of the Hyde Amendment. The amendment denies the use of Medicaid funds for abortion care with only limited exceptions.
A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) last Tuesday, with the aim of closing the gap between existing protections for pregnant workers and discrimination that still persists against them
Pro-choice activists are in mourning this week after the Alabama state legislature passed the country's most restrictive abortion bill and Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law on Thursday.
Congress held a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Tuesday, the first in 36 years. The development comes amidst a renewed effort on the part of state and federal Democratic legislators to push for the amendment’s ratification.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.
The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.
Populist nationalist political leaders have been increasingly rising to power in recent years all over the world — from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK to President Trump. Now a group of female leaders has banded together to warn the world about how this growing embrace of right-wing authoritarianism undermines women’s rights across the globe.
Over the past two years, an estimated 30 women have had miscarriages while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to information released by the federal government and published by the Arizona Republic last week.
What’s so harmful about the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on reproductive rights health care? A lot, actually.
This Alabama woman wrote a piece about the late-term abortion she wishes she had. With Donald Trump’s conservative agenda in action, will lawmakers listen to stories like hers?
On Tuesday morning, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court lifted two lower court rulings that had prohibited Trump’s ban on transgender military service members from coming into effect.
In late November, officials from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement announced that the Law for Protection from Violence against Women, legislation women’s rights activists have advocated for since 2013, will likely be enacted in 2019.
The legislation, which would hold congresspeople personally liable for paying for settlements related to harassment rather than the taxpayer, now awaits President Trump’s signature.
A recent Amnesty International report released on December 10, the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reveals that women, particularly the most marginalized women in the UK, have been disproportionately affected by austerity measures implemented in 2010.
On Tuesday, in the run-up to the opening of the Indian legislature’s winter session on December 11, women’s groups came together to express frustration and outrage that the Women’s Reservation Bill, which aims to ensure Indian women’s equal representation in elected office, has not yet been passed.
Advocates warn that the expansion of religious refusals could open the door to more discrimination in other areas.
A proposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act could close loopholes that have left Native women, who are most at risk of violence, unprotected under the law.