More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process. The ...

Anything I can do to help a parent not have to stress about it and not have to go to their kid and say, ‘Hey, I'm sorry, no ...

The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to ...

Abdi, working in Nairobi, had heard stories about a community of Kenyan mothers who were trapped in Saudi Arabia because ...

Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a measure long demanded by women's rights campaigners in the ...

Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill reserving 30% of seats for women in next year's ...

As leaders prepare to meet in Belém, Brazil, women living the climate emergency in Kenya and across Africa are demanding global action, gender justice and investment in local adaptation.

In the Libyan city of Sabha, known as the “Bride of the South,” authorities dismantled three terrorist networks in August, ...

When Faisa Idow went into labour with her first child, she sensed something was terribly wrong. The 23-year-old from a rural ...

The region of East Africa comprises countries such as Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Djibouti, Réunion, Mayotte, ...

Through secret mentorship groups, they’re learning to take control of their reproductive health, finances, and futures—one ...