Women fight an uphill battle in El Salvador
A delegation of women recently paid a visit to El Salvador to see what women are doing there to better their lives.
Today in women’s history: Rosa Luxemburg born in 1871
Rosa Luxemburg, born on March 5, 1871, in Zamość, Poland, was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent.
Today in women’s history: Death of Anne Frank, Holocaust martyr
The exact date is undetermined, but on or about this day 70 years ago, in 1945, Anne Frank perished at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
An open letter to the leaders of the world
"Let's be clear: the actions we take in 2015 will decide which way the world turns for decades to come; please take the right path."
Report: Indigenous women in Canada face high murder rate
A new report exposes how indigenous women in Canada are being murdered and are disappearing at alarming rates.
Tudeh Party of Iran strongly condemns crimes against women
It is the Iranian mothers, wives and sisters who are paying the price for factional fighting inside the theocratic regime.
#Bring our girls home
A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.
Free Bahareh Hedayat, Iranian student leader, women's rights activist
Bahareh Hedayat will be 32 years old next month. She looks likely to mark that birthday in prison unless the Iranian government can be persuaded to free her.
Iraqi women protest proposed Islamic law
Iraqi women demonstrated against a draft law that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.
IBEW member hits the ice in Sochi
Journeyman electrician Ekaterina Pashkevitch is taking to the ice in Sochi, Russia, this week, playing center for the Russian women's Olympic hockey team.
