Women have joined men in the Armed Forces in increasing numbers in recent years, and even most...
Category - Women’s Empowerment
To defeat ISIS, listen to the women
Far from just being victims of ISIS, Syrian women have risen as some of the biggest agents of...
Enough is enough: India women fight to enter temples
Women have the right to be full participants of every part of society and...
Women’s Rights First—African Summit
Africa faces numerous challenges to the well-being of the more than 1.2 billion people who live...
Pakistani women risking all to fight for their rights
The attack Kainat Soomro suffered is more than any 13-year-old should endure, but sadly, her...
Uganda’s anti-child trafficking campaign goes to schools
This story from The Christian Science Monitor, via the Thomson Reuters Foundation, follows a group...
Get to Know 3 Founding Female Members of the NAACP
Oppression—and fighting it—comes in many forms. For Black History Month, we’re really...
UAE Appoints Women Ministers of Happiness, Tolerance, Youth
The United Arab Emirates is looking to focus on progress and happiness–and it’s...
8 ways you can empower girls to learn coding
Make sure to check out this article, excerpted below, by Matt Petronzio of Mashable about how to...
Landless women farmers receive land tenancy for the first time in Pakistan
asiapacific.unwomen.org – Durdana is a young widower from Pakistan’s Dadu District in Sindh...