Human Rights

Taban Shoresh is the founder of the Lotus Flower, a small UK-based nonprofit having a huge impact on the lives of displaced and refugee women and girls who have survived persecution and…

When unaccompanied migrant children leave federal custody to live with a parent or other sponsor, the transition into U.S. communities can be difficult for both children and their families. While…

Global Citizen spoke to Angela Baschieri, the regional adviser on population dynamics in UNFPA’s Eastern and Southern Africa office, about the need for countries to include increasing women’s health services…

New data from the National Endowment for the Arts, summarized in the research brief “Artists in the Workforce: Selected Demographic Characteristics Prior to COVID‐19,” paints a fuller picture of why women in…

Social isolation is an epidemic in the United States, affecting two-thirds of older adults and three-quarters of young people (as reported during COVID). Social isolation is linked to depression, poor sleep, and…

Why has it taken a global pandemic to open up new ways of engaging parents in their children’s education? This is a question that we recently debated in the Center…

For people who have never thought about it before, it might sound reasonable to require trans kids to wait until they’re adults before they can receive certain forms of care…

Amid a spate of recent attacks targeting LGBTQ communities in the United States, advocates say the government must do more to protect vulnerable citizens. Late last month, a man opened fire at…

A welcome trend in recent decades has been the sustained rise in high school graduation rates up to a national average of 85% for 2017-18—as well as a significant narrowing of differences by race…

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a very real threat to women and girls all over the world and schools, colleges, and universities are not exempt. According to UNESCO, school-related GBV cuts across…