Executive Director of the Fiji Council of Social Services Vani Catanasiga Women face various barriers ... the key takeaways from the report for civil society organisations. She says they have ...

“In PNG, gender based discrimination remains prevalent and women’s rights are often undermined by cultural norms and systemic barriers and we have a civil society coalition led by four civil society ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan is on the way to gender equality. As of Jan. 1, women make up 55.8% of the country’s civil service, and 39.1% of them hold senior positions, the Ministry of Culture and Information ...

The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Pictured is the UH Manoa Student Services Building. (Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019) Despite the name ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this quilting tradition Kaila Philo A group of women sewing a quilt on ...

One of Wells’ notable contemporaries was the civil rights activist, journalist and teacher Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). Terrell was one of the first Black women in the nation to earn a ...

outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is best known for enforcing disability rights across America’s ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...