When it comes to contraception, the United States could be viewed as the land of lunacy. The facts and figures from that country demonstrate the power of contraception to change a society.
Syria’s media war is being waged with gory images from the ground. But preconceived notions about subservient Middle Eastern women could lead the world to assume that there have been no women active on the ground in Syria. This is simply not true: we’re just not looking hard enough.
While just about everyone agrees that female participation in athletic endeavors is great news, the down side is that sports injuries are on the rise since women—like men—often get hurt when they exert themselves.
Anti-choicers attacking Medicaid funding for women's health care claim that it's about abortion, but their interest in redirecting patients to centers that don't provide even basic health care show it's about so much more, a war in which women are just collateral damage.
Hobby Lobby sues to deny employees their earned benefits, the Value Voters Summit wages/denies the war on women and Andrea Grimes explains how Texas is cutting women off from medical care.
If we intend to develop policies that are fair and just, we must collaborate with sex workers themselves to afford them the dignity that they and all of us deserve. It’s time for sex workers’ rights to be an integrated part of the global human rights agenda.
On Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry stopped by to lend a little good-old-boy masculinity to the opening of a branch of Houston's The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center that Perry touted as the future of Texas' new Women's Health Program--a program explicitly designed and intended to serve women who are not, and don't want to be, pregnant.
Weekly global roundup: The latest with the delayed RH Bill in the Philippines; HIV/AIDS stigma impedes maternal care in Kenya; Maternal deaths rise due to fighting in Yemen's south; and the sex work industry booms in Madagascar.
