“I was born in a war; I grew up in a war, and now I’m in my 30s, and I’m still experiencing a war,” was how a young Afghan woman named Shogofa opened our wide-ranging conversation about the current situation and the prospects for women and girls in her homeland. …

Rev. Dr. King’s Question Demands Our Answer Today. The destruction and rank desecration visited upon the United States Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists bore nightmarish witness to the world of how far many in the U.S. have strayed from our professed values. The harm done to the iconic temple of our republic — to its stately marble and elegiac…

This Human Rights Day brings to a close the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, which focuses our attention and advocacy on the violence perpetrated against women and girls worldwide. In recent months, according to UN Women, 243 million women and girls were abused by an intimate family member…

Today America lays to rest a giant for justice. The timing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing could not have been sadder or more cruel, given her bracing fight against ravaging cancers so that she might continue the larger battle for “equal justice under law” as long as she could…

To celebrate our mothers and all mothers this Mother’s Day, we need to do a lot better than hearts, flowers, and Hallmark cards. As the world battles the gravest global challenge of a century, special attention must be paid to the extraordinary vulnerability of mothers worldwide, 61 percent of whom…

What do Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, and Taiwan have in common, in addition to their so far doing a good job of containing the spread of COVID-19? All six countries are led by women. Why is it, actually, that women leaders have done a better job of managing…

As frontline caregivers in hospitals, retirement communities, and our own homes, women are our warriors now. Seventy percent of the world’s caregivers are women; indeed, our entire social safety net, from mothering and grandmothering to teaching and nursing to cleaning and food preparation, relies overwhelmingly on women. Paid and unpaid…

The new Coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect millions around the world, but while older men seem more predisposed to contract it, women will bear the brunt of the recovery. Women who do most of the caretaking and the community-based public health work around the world. …

I no longer know my country. A place that tears mothers fleeing violence from their children, locks up children and mothers alike, stands by when they fall sick, shrugs when they die. A place where top-ranking racist officials leverage hate-driven tragedy from Charlottesville to Pittsburgh to El Paso, for their…