Human Rights

To be successful, Black women need quality professional development.

Immigration boosts local wages and having neighbors of foreign descent can reduce prejudice, according to new research.

When many funders think about impact, they don’t think about gender. Those who do typically view gender as its own discrete program area—a focus that has been vital for improving…

Many Black patients experience stark differences in how they’re treated during medical interactions compared to white patients.

Now, climate change is adding urgency to those pledges.

In 2021 alone, 20 separate climate-related disasters cost the United States more than $145 billion. Scientists warn we must halve harmful emissions by the end of this decade to avoid mass human suffering, meaning…

Meet six of the young leaders who are attending the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York.

Black Lives Matter protests in cities with Black women police chiefs experienced significantly lower levels of violence – from both police and protesters – than cities with police chiefs of…

Women farmers feed their communities and the world. From the paddy terraces of Asia to the maize fields of sub-Saharan Africa, the woman farmer tills, plants, waters, and harvests crops…

Early in 2020, it was estimated that almost 12 million children in America were living in poverty – a burden disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic kids, as well as those living…

On a Tuesday morning in March during Women’s History Month, Ariela Blätter had some bad news.  “No country in the world affords women the same opportunities as men,” Blätter, president…

The number of Latino students who are going to college is on the rise, and they don’t all fit the profile of what institutions might consider the …