The situation facing Afghan women and girls is a test of our shared commitment to human rights, justice, and equality.

Taylor, Wesleyan University and Elizabeth Anne Wood, Nassau Community College Political attacks on teaching about gender in colleges and universities are about more than just gender: They are part of ...

It has now been four years since what Afghans call “the fall.” On August 15, 2021, Taliban fighters swept into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, hours after the country’s president fled, cementing their ...

Minnesota powerlifter JayCee Cooper filed a discrimination lawsuit after she was barred from women's USA Powerlifting ...

For centuries, women worldwide have experienced violence in their homes at the hands of intimate partners with no or very little legal recourse. I witnessed this firsthand. In 1990, when I worked at a ...

The opinion determined that USA Powerlifting violated the public accommodations statute of Minnesota’s Human Rights Act. It ...

The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut will be hosting a three-day summit from Wednesday, Oct. 22 to Friday, Oct. 24 that will explore the connections between sports and ...

Thirty years after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women ...

Last week the Australian Human Rights Commission announced Michelle Telfer as a finalist for its human rights award. Less ...

Former American Olympic track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who made world headlines after their iconic fist-raising protest on the podium after winning in the 1968 Olympics, will be at ...

In a groundbreaking moment for Pakistan and global human rights advocacy, Nayyab Ali, a prominent Pakistani human rights ...

From book bans and firing teachers to taking over university administrations altogether, right-wing politicians and activists ...