Human Rights

These stereotypes can extend into the late teens and contribute to a gender gap in STEM college courses and related careers, according to a new study that explores the gender-based…

Nursing home residents with dementia get better care when they’re in the majority, but that’s typically not the case, research finds.

A new law forbidding material that’s “obscene” and ‘harmful to minors’ from school libraries could hurt LGBTQ youth and unfairly limit librarians’ work, critics say.

2020 saw the highest number of women of color elected to congress in U.S. history, as well as the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman (and woman…

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd …

Today, 66-year-old Maty Tine is a pillar of her community in western Senegal — a progressive farmer, environmental advocate, and radio presenter in her local dialect. But growing into this…

The U.S. is finally moving away from fossil fuels, but there aren’t enough electricians to do the job.

Eight areas of life critical to health and well-being totally account for why Black adults in the US have a higher risk of early death.

In the previous entry in this three-part series, Filipino climate justice frontline leader and Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Christine Cordero discussed the group’s history and how climate funders…

Women make up 90% of frontline health care workers globally — and those in unpaid roles are grossly underpaid yet continue to hold health systems together in the wake of…

<p>This report assesses the impact of investments in rural health care in Viet Nam by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Vietnamese government, and other international donors. It is based on a large-scale longitudinal study from 2008 to 2016 in twelve communes in three Vietnamese provinces: Thái…

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Too many people for too long have lived with raw sewage in their yards in poverty-stricken parts of Alabama.