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As Congress considers the need for greater regulation of international marriage brokers, a Ukrainian woman is suing the brokerage that united her with her now ex-husband who, she claims, battered her and is also abusing his latest “mail-order bride.”
A new report by the United Nations indicates that women are gaining political power around the world, while they continue to suffer unequal access to education and employment.
In honor of Mother’s Day, Save the Children released its annual Mothers’ Index of the best and worst places to be a mother around the world. The relief agency is also supporting legislation to protect women and children in war-torn regions.
A grass-roots campaign led by two women is aiding the leading international reproduction-health group, which lost all its U.S. funding last summer after a damaging anti-choice report whose findings were not officially corroborated.
The U.N. commission on women found itself at a diplomatic impasse for the first time in its history over a document describing what steps nations should take to reduce violence against women and girls.
Nearly half of the 70,000 global deaths due to unsafe abortions each year occur in Africa. That is why we must support the brave outcry in Africa against the Bush administration’s deadly Gag Rule.
A new collection of women’s art from almost every country in the world offers a broad-spectrum vision of the role of women in society.
As America begins a full-scale war, thousands of active-duty soldiers and reservists are streaming onto foreign battlefields–and a record number of those combatants are not just women, but mothers.
Children’s advocates are praising a new law intended to lower the risk of international parental kidnappings. However, the itemized risk factors for illegal flight are also common among battered women preparing to leave their abusers.
As International Women’s Day approaches this weekend, a foreign policy expert examines the failure of U.S. foreign policy to focus development aid on women and children and calls for stronger laws requiring women benefit from U.S. largesse.