Aviva Stahl

Nigerian authorities have rescued 10 children allegedly being trafficked to Russia in what is believed to be an attempt to use the approaching World Cup as cover for the illegal activity.

Women won big in Tuesday’s primaries, securing party nominations in at least 56 races for federal and statewide executive offices. By the end of the night, the United States moved one step closer to electing the first indigenous woman to Congress and was poised to break the glass ceiling in a variety of other races across the country. 

On Thursday, activists drew attention to severe restrictions on the right to choose: Women in Belfast took abortion pills, which had been delivered by robot from the Netherlands, in front of the city’s main court buildings.

After a lengthy legal battle that reached all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Arkansas has become the first state in the nation in which women are unable to access medical abortions.

Adding to a long string of accusations stretching back decades, yet another woman has come forward with claims against R&B singer R. Kelly, alleging that he coerced her into sex, mentally and physically abused her, and deliberately infected her with herpes.

On Monday, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law that codifies existing statues and practices designed to ensure fair treatment of women and trans people incarcerated by the state’s Department of Corrections.

Early Monday morning, six armed men robbed a Tijuana shelter where transgender women were staying. On May 8, the shelter was set on fire. Advocates voiced concern about the harassment of the trans women at the shelter and attributed this week’s violence to prejudice.

In late March, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that closes a legal loophole in an attempt to ensure domestic abusers are required to surrender all firearms, not just handguns.

A monument dedicated to “victims of abortion” is one step closer to being built on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol.

California is one step closer to providing compensation to the living survivors of state-sponsored sterilization.

On April 2, Lizzy Martinez, 17, was pulled from her fifth-period class at Braden River High School, in Bradenton, Florida and sent to the dean’s office—because her nipples were allegedly “distracting” other students.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and build a database that it enables it to track and search journalists, editors, and “media influencers” based on their beat and past work.

A new survey offers an idea of just how extensive the issue of sexual harassment is in the philanthropy world.

Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor has been hired by a local Pakistani television station, according to a story published Sunday by national English-language newspaper Dawn.

On Monday, Mississippi's governor signed a new bill into law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks, making Mississippi the strictest state in the country for women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Just before noon today, a district judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the state's lone clinic.  

About 40 percent of employees in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) report experiencing some kind of harassment, one the highest rates of all agencies in the Interior Department.

The last decade saw the slowest progress on closing the gender wage gap in nearly 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday.

LGBTQ murders went up 86 percent in 2017, but remain vastly under-covered in cable and broadcast TV.

With a new editorial and hashtag, writer and feminist Mona Eltahawy stirred debate and inspired other victims of sexualized violence in religious spaces to come forward.

As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.  

In a vote early this evening, Senate Republicans failed to pass “The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” a bill that aimed to make abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization illegal in most cases.

The ACLU, along with three other legal advocacy groups, filed a federal class action lawsuit late Sunday night against Dallas County, Texas, alleging that poor people charged with misdemeanors and felonies are being detained indefinitely while those who can afford bail are walking free.

Today, the Trump administration established yet more barriers for women, LGBTQ people, and others to access the urgent care they need by providing additional protections to health care workers who refuse to provide treatment because of their moral or religious beliefs.

Close to 50 military veterans, service members, and their supporters gathered outside of the Pentagon for a #MeTooMilitary demonstration today. The protest came just hours after Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony.

While American women reach new milestones, including holding a record number of seats in the Senate, their representation in national legislative office still lags behind a hundred other countries, including falling two places below Saudi Arabia, which is notorious for its terrible treatment of women.

In three cases of undocumented minors needing abortions, the government has argued that merely allowing the women to physically leave a detention facility would amount to facilitating their abortions, even though no one is asking the government to transport the women to clinics or to pay for their abortions.