(Geneva, 12 March 2024) – Former Syrian Vice-President Rifaat al-Assadwill stand trial in Switzerland for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has just charged him with…
ALTO, Ga. (AP) — A woman incarcerated at a Georgia prison has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was sexually assaulted by a correctional officer and had to undergo surgery…
On the 1-year anniversary of the fuel spill, Kānaka Maoli activist and O'ahu Water Protector Healani Sonoda-Pale (center) was among dozens of activists who served members of the Navy Command…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3jlNhicFY&t=1s Director Heidi Hutner and team; Mary Olson (Gender + Radiation Impact Project); Navajo guests Anna Rondon, Krystal Curley; Professor Mark Jacobson (Stanford University). Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) will moderate.…
About one in six intentional firearm-related deaths in women of childbearing age occur during or shortly after pregnancy, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicinehas found. Naima T. Joseph, M.D., M.P.H.,…
By Steve Inskeep March 11, 2024, 7:31 AM ET You could say I grew up not knowing who I was. I knew that I’d been born in an Indianapolis hospital in 1968,…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights…
DUBLIN (AP) — According to Ireland’s Constitution, a woman’s place is in the home. Irish voters will decide Friday — International Women’s Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove…
CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts.…
KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest, riddled with Islamic…