Education access
Women’s rights have advanced enormously over the past century, yet equality remains unfinished. Globally, women enjoy only about 67% of the economic legal rights available to men, and millions still...
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What Rights Do Women Still Lack Around the World? Global Data & Examples
Barbara Ehrenreich
Witch hunts are not relics of the past. In India, Ghana, and Papua New Guinea, women are still tortured, exiled, and murdered under the guise of superstition. But this violence...
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Burned for Existing: Witch Hunts and the War on Marginalized Women
Bodily autonomy
Women’s rights are human rights because women are entitled to the same dignity, safety, and freedom as every person. From consent and bodily autonomy to education, health care, and political...
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Why Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Consent, Equality and the Global Evidence
economic empowerment
Women have gained enormous ground. Women have not yet achieved equality. Both statements can be true at the same time
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What Are Women’s Rights? Definition, Examples & Global Data
Chinese orphanages
"China’s one-child policy, introduced in 1979, was more than population control—it became a system of gender discrimination that told families daughters were expendable. Orphanages overflowed with abandoned girls, many left...
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The Girls China Didn’t Want: A Brutal Legacy of the One-Child Policy
Black women’s advocacy
"On August 25, 2025, frontline women’s organizations in British Columbia confronted Canada’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality with a stark reality: every six days, a woman is killed by...
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Women in British Columbia Demand Action: Inside the August 2025 Advocacy Meeting on Intimate Partner Violence
Female genital mutilation
With 99.2% of Somali women subjected to female genital mutilation, the practice remains one of the most extreme violations of human rights today. Rooted in social stigma and misinterpreted religious...
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Understanding and Ending Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia