The California Supreme Court decision overturning state law banning gay marriage may have a profound impact on the state’s and nation’s November elections. Anti-gay rights activists have already submitted signatures for a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to

Ward Connerly’s efforts to place anti-affirmative action initiatives of the November ballots in five states have hit roadblocks. The measures would ban affirmative action for women and people of color in public education, public employment, and public contracting. They have

Anti-abortion extremists are targeting states with ballot initiatives for November. A South Dakota initiative banning abortion garnered enough signatures to be placed on the state’s November ballot. The measur...

Article 25.1 of the Universal Declaration, to which Ghana is signatory states, "Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care

Moxico Province's Family and Women Promotion Department director, Quinta Pinto Camiji, appealed Thursday in Luena for the collaboration of women in awareness campaigns of citizens with illegal possession of guns to hand them over to the National Police.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS simple enough, if not particularly rousing: The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology is to launch a Distinguished Women Scientists Award.

Angie, 23, has been living with a fistula - a tear in the tissue of her vagina that causes her to lose control of her bladder - for almost one year, after suffering a prolonged labour. She recounted for IRIN

Of 600 rape victims recently interviewed by a Liberian non-governmental organisation, 90 percent of the women were found to be suffering from fistulas - a vaginal tear which results in loss of bladder control and social stigmatisation.