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[ad_1] Women and girls in Kenya’s West Pokot celebrate as the government cracks down on those practising harmful Female Genital Mutilation in the area. CREDIT: Joyce...
[ad_1] The World Bank says it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill that...
[ad_1] Tatev Azizyan, a local journalist in an empty supermarket in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital. Residents have struggled with deepening shortages of food and medicine since the...
[ad_1] ORLANDO, Fla. — Saying Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in Russia and China, a group of mostly Republican former high-level...
[ad_1] FANCY FARM, Ky. — In front of a raucous crowd at Kentucky’s premier political event on Saturday, the Democratic incumbent governor talked about the state’s...
[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general said Friday he was investigating whether a local school district infringed on students’ civil rights by adopting a policy...
[ad_1] Women are still woefully underrepresented in leadership positions, even in industries where women constitute the majority of workers. Credit: Patricia Grogg/IPS Opinion by Jemimah Njuki,...
[ad_1] Two pregnant girls walk through the center of the capital of El Salvador, a country with one of the highest rates of pregnancies among girls...
[ad_1] Nigerian law protects widows, but the reality they face is quite different. by Promise Eze (sokoto, nigeria) Thursday, August 03, 2023 Inter Press Service SOKOTO, NIGERIA,...
[ad_1] A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that transgender students in Indiana must have access to the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent...
[ad_1] Women fishing in Lake Victoria. Opinion by Pearl Amina Karungi (united nations) Wednesday, August 02, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Aug 02 (IPS) – In...
[ad_1] Girls wait for their vaccination cards to be updated after receiving the HPV vaccine at BP Koirala Cancer Hospital in Bharatpur, Nepal, 10 July 2023....
[ad_1] Credit: Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, July 28, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 28 (IPS) – Nepal is the...
[ad_1] HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge in Montana on Friday temporarily blocked a new law that restricts drag performances just days before thousands of people...
[ad_1] “Migration is a right,” read the handkerchiefs held by two women at a demonstration in the Argentine capital for migrants’ rights. At left is Natividad...
[ad_1] ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a man accused of killing three people and wounding three more in a dispute...
[ad_1] Transgender people often entertain at weddings and other events, but they increasingly face violent acts, especially since part of an Act ensuring their rights was...
[ad_1] In many election cycles, there’s a snappy shorthand used to describe the type of voters who may help decide the winner. Think soccer moms or...
[ad_1] Presidential candidate and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking for an investigation of the state’s investments in the company that makes Bud Light because...
[ad_1] BARCELONA, Spain — BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative politician who polls suggest is poised to become Spain’s next prime minister, likes...