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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 girls harder than men. Gender-based violence is at record highs, women are leaving the workforce i...

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 no choice but to leave. During their chaotic departure, she lost track of her parents and siblings....

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 I was her age,” she said. “My life wasn’t at risk.” Aguilar, 50, came to the United States ...