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Warning: This article contains references to suicide throughout. First, her education was taken away. Then, a wedding was arranged – against her will – to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* was left ...

You can probably tell by the state of things that the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. This was one of the 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the U.N ...

In January, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor applied for warrants to arrest the Taliban’s supreme leader and the chief justice of Afghanistan. The grounds for the warrants: the ...

(Illustration: Naina Hussain/The Fuller Project) This project, which was produced in collaboration with Rukhshana Media, is part of The Fuller Project’s ongoing series, “Ending America’s Forever War: ...

Extreme weather events like floods, storms and droughts are becoming more frequent and more severe as the world warms. That is pushing up domestic violence. Scientists say the evidence linking climate ...

Early puberty is relatively uncommon, affecting nearly one in every 5,000 to 10,000 children, with a female to male ratio of approximately 10:1. Since the pandemic started, doctors around the world ...

In the sweltering sugar fields of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, abusive practices such as debt bondage and child labor have long been an open secret. But in 2019, a state lawmaker named ...

Low-paid caregiving jobs bind together a lot of big trends happening in the economy, said Abigail Wozniak, a labor economist at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. And you can see those themes play out ...

It is only 9 a.m., but already the sun is high in the sky and Lad Devi and her co-workers at the Dooni dairy cooperative are hard at it. As milk arrives from the surrounding farms, they work quickly ...

In late January, five months into Taliban rule, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International released a report stating that LGBT Afghans, and others who don’t conform to rigid gender norms, ...

Women are twice as likely as men to die from heart attacks. When a nonsmoker dies of lung cancer, it’s twice as likely to be a woman as a man. And women suffer more than men from Alzheimer’s and ...