Face Equality International (FEI), an Alliance of worldwide organizations working to end the discrimination experienced by people with facial disfigurements, asserts that disfigurement is a neglected ...

Fifty-five years ago, a group of LGBTQ New Yorkers rioted, protested, and got arrested when taking a stand against a routine police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. While the Stonewall Uprising ...

Gender equality is enshrined in the opening preamble of United Nations Charter 1945. But despite progress and some setbacks, not a single country has delivered 100% on gender equality. Is the sinister ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Worldwide, women and girls continue to face systematic and coordinated attacks on their hard-won rights. These threats are materialising through the rollback ...

Participants during FEMNET's three-day workshop. [Beryl Ringos, Standard] Every so often, someone is grumbling about how women's and girl's empowerment initiatives are "too much" and how the issues of ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

This blog regularly covers disability and ableism as neglected issues within greater human rights movements. A recent article we co-wrote makes a further point that facial disfigurement is even more ...