Women's eNews had also been regretfully unaware that the passive voice was being used when addressing men’s violence against ...

Women Wish to Stay to Testify Against Former Guards The women argue that they are entitled to a specific type of visa under the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, permitting them to remain in the ...

Credit: sean dreilinger on Flickr, under Creative Commons (WOMENSENEWS)– In a 2002 article, “Gender Equality: A Key to Our Future?,” Lena Sommestad, a women’s historian and then Swedish Social ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

HONOLULU (WOMENSENEWS)–To some, it’s simply a byproduct of childbirth, a biological waste. To others, it’s even a possible source of biological material for genetic research. But to those of ...

It is the height of irony. In the same month officially proclaiming March as Women’s History Month, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on the legacy of women from Michigan “who have continued to provide ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—If there is a single through-line in my life and in my philanthropy, it is marginalization. It has been with me from my earliest memory, and it has defined the many causes to which I ...

Women’s History Month has come and gone, and despite all the drama, we are still here and multitasking more than ever. However, imagine waking up one day to find all the women had simply vanished! No ...

Eight months after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett was appointed to be the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. The New Zealander has a ...

But, perhaps, the most famous quote for supporting the ERA came from the late Supreme Court Justice Atonin Scalia in 2011, when he said, “Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on ...