My mouth dropped open in response, but no words came out.

New York lawmakers voted to pass a package of bills to strengthen protections for victims of human trafficking. Also this week, Brown University students silently marched across campus to protest the ...

Sexual assault is a very real threat for American prisoners of war in the Iraqi conflict, but little is known about how the military prepares to deal with that trauma. (WOMENSENEWS)–Fear contorts Army ...

HILLSDALE, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)–Some of the most famous TED Talks are from recognizable names — Monica Lewinsky, Elizabeth Gilbert, Al Gore – but others are from girls like Caitlin Haacke and Sophie ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

I can’t help but wonder what the long-term consequences are to a society that suppresses our empathy and humanity in the name of self care? When I had my son two years ago, I came home with my husband ...

In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age for minors that have parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v ...

My friend sounded proud. Real proud, when she announced that the heterosexual couple, who had been trying for over two years to start a family, had finally succeeded. “My son is pregnant!” she ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

In the two years since the Roe decision was overturned, a great deal of ink has been spilled discussing new restrictions to abortion and other means of curtailing women’s reproductive choices. But now ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...