Despite these promising advances driven by proactive government and institutional initiatives, true gender equality remains ...

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

This year’s International Women’s Day served as a vital opportunity to celebrate progress in gender equality while ...

Levirate marriage — the tradition in which a man marries his deceased brother’s widow — has been a longstanding cultural practice across various African societies.

The re-emergence of militarism raises urgent questions about the future of democracy, civil liberties and gender equality.

Freedom of expression (FoE) and its corollary freedom of access to information (FoI) are cornerstones of a democratic society. They enable critical tools which allow for democratic participation, ...

Since Taliban forces effectively overthrew the Afghan government in August 2021, the Taliban and various armed groups, including the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K), ...

With 205 anti-LGBTQ bills filed, the 89th Texas Legislative Session marks the most aggressive wave of attacks in state ...

As chairs of the Academic Freedom Councils at Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton universities, we are alarmed at the threats to ...

Achieving gender justice in global health—which the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health defines as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender ...

The Bitter Feminist, a bold new docudrama by HardFacts Studios, held its first-ever public screening at Freedom Park, Lagos ...

There are huge implications of the French Court’s decision last week of sentencing Marie Le Pen to prison, and thereby preventing her from running for any public office for the next coming five years.