A key commission vets judicial candidates to weed out unethical prospects. Watchdogs say it’s failing that duty.

The issue doesn’t affect Kyambogo University alone. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, in October 2019 security ...

Months after an informal settlement’s demolition, the site is under development as displaced residents grapple with ...

Decades after the country introduced quotas, phantom candidacies and political deals still stifle women’s representation.

With conservatism on the rise, the capital’s third-gender and trans people retreat from public life, erasing the identities they once fought to display.

Four teenage girls have invented a urine-powered generator to create safer and more access to electricity.

Women who lived through Indonesia’s anti-communist terror blend art and protest to block government plans that would honor their jailer as a hero.

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, this five-part series looks at how governments in the region struggle to rein in the bloodshed – and the many ways women fight for ...

Pupils and parents say the forced examinations – condemned by the United Nations – traumatize girls. A group of student activists is demanding the practice ends.

Christians say the dormant law, first passed in the 1970s, targets their faith. Those trying to revive it say it is essential for preservation of indigenous faiths and culture.

Norma Baján Balán, GPJ Guatemala Fishermen who work on Lake Atitlán sell their catch at the local market. Amadeo López Sajvín, who lives in a municipality that borders the lake, has been fishing for ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE and LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — At a nursing school in Zambia, many of the students aren’t from Zambia at all. Michael is one of them. “We are over 100 Zimbabweans in a class of 140 students,” ...