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The Taliban effectively banned education for the majority of girls in Afghanistan. But many are now studying in secret.

Healing Hotels of the World, Join a virtual dialogue with an Alternative Nobel Prize laureate, a former Bhutan Ambassador to the UN advocating Gross…

Health care in Afghanistan has literally collapsed in a matter of months, disrupted by conflict and starved of foreign assistance, according to UN agencies and NGOs working in the country.

As a number of top American companies are promising to train or hire Afghan refugees resettling in the United States, questions remain about providing child-care services to the new workers.

A Crisis of Care: Sexual and Reproductive Health Competes for Attention Amid Conflict and Displacement in Mali Format Introduction National healthcare systems rarely prioritize sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This is a challenge for women and girls worldwide, including in Mali. There, nearly a decade of conflict has created a protracted humanitarian crisis, decimating the healthcare system and limiting the availability of SRH services. Meanwhile, political uncertainty following a coup in ...

Today is International Women’s Day. It is a day during which we celebrate the achievements of women around the world, highlight continuing challenges, and recommit to working toward the goal of gender equality. In fact, this year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge.” To me, this means challenging the status quo. We know that gender equality remains a distant aspiration almost everywhere in the world—the data makes this clear. To make matters worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit women and...

On This International Women’s Day, We Must Listen to Refugee Women ELLE 3/8/2021 Devon Cone © Devon Cone A young Afghan refugee in Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. She traveled from Iran to Turkey to Greece to seek asylum. Solange never imagined that she would leave her country. But the violence in her town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo became too much and was too close. Members of armed militia groups killed many of Solange’s family friends. They had...

Your browser does not support the audio element. LONDON When Joe Biden was elected president of the United States in November, Yasmin Aguilar’s 11-year-old niece – who began the US refugee resettlement process in Afghanistan when she was five – told her family: “Joe Biden will hopefully put me on the first plane. He’s a friend of [Barack] Obama, and Obama loves Muslims.”  The story was sobering for Aguilar to hear. “I didn’t know what American presidents thought of Muslims when...