Dec 5, 2022 | Featured, Recent News
By: Lynnette McIntireDecember 5, 2022 Femicide. A word that conjures fragmented images of girl baby drownings, honorkillings, stoned women labeled as adulterers or infidels. Why do we steer away from the term “femicide”? Is it because it seems like the word is removed...
Nov 25, 2022 | Updates and Events, Recent News
By: Zeinab MohamudNovember 25, 2022 International efforts are being made to end violence against women and girls through the Global 16 Days Campaign. The campaign is held every year from November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against...
Jul 25, 2022 | Middle East & North Africa, Recent News
By: Madison Plemens-Schunk July 25, 2022 During August of 2021, after the Taliban seized Kabul, Afghan girls were prohibited from attending school. A month later, girls in primary school were told they could return with gender-segregated classes, including...
Jun 24, 2022 | North America, Recent News
By: Madison Plemens-Schunk June 24, 2022 Roe v. Wade was a landmark case for abortion rights. Because of this case, legalized abortion became far more common, and safe abortions were performed nationwide. In 1970, Jane Roe (an alias to protect the plaintiff’s...
Jun 7, 2022 | North America, Recent News
By: Cheryl Thomas June 7, 2022 The verdict in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard is a devastating blow to victims of violence and all women. Amber Heard has lost in one of the most publicized trials concerning domestic abuse that this country...
Apr 14, 2022 | Updates and Events, Sub-Saharan Africa, Recent News
By: Darcy Berglund April 14, 2022 Christina Ruhinda is here in the United States from her home country of Tanzania as an International Hubert Humphrey Fellow with Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. The program encourages...
