Human Rights

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women…

India’s Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial practice of instant triple talaq practised among some Muslims in the country is unconstitutional. The ruling was made after five women petitioned the court,…

Over the past three months, significant legal reforms on women’s rights have advanced in a handful of countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Last week, Lebanon’s Parliament finally…

Under the current U.S. Administration, philanthropic organizations and the nonprofit sector are now, more than ever, carrying the mantle for social change—be it for LGBTQ rights specifically or the struggles…

Investment in the human rights of women and girls is not only just and right, it is, we believe, essential to achieving stable democracies based on fairness and dignity. Gender…

Five high schools in Northeast Ohio have a lot to cheer about this season. Lakewood, North Ridgeville, Dover, New Philadelphia, and Midview high schools have all received full sponsorship from…

Over one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress voted to declare war on Germany and the nations allied with it. The scope of women’s service to…

Children’s mental health is one of the most important and most misunderstood issues in our national healthcare debate. Today, mental health care represents 38 percent of children’s Medicaid spending, which…

Inventing the first app in the world to be approved as a contraceptive started as a hobby project for Elina Berglund Scherwitzl. The nuclear physicist, who’d been working on the…

Pope Francis has called on world leaders to do more to help refugees and migrants, in an attempt to put pressure on politicians to improve what he called the “lamentable” situation…

When the women come to him, they are desperate. They meet the traditional healer in a sparsely furnished room, a half-hour’s bumpy ride outside Blantyre, in southern Malawi. The healer,…

With members of Congress heading home for the August recess, families in Missouri will have plenty of questions for lawmakers on the future of federal programs and spending. From tax…