Ellen Wulfhorst is the Chief Correspondent of the Americas for the Thompson Reuters Foundation.
Office life will be different after COVID-19, with desks far apart, Plexiglass barriers and a health warning on handshakes. But the biggest change could be a notable absence of women.
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global ...
4月28日，联合国预测，新冠病毒导致的封锁可能会导致家庭暴力事件激增20%，因为受害者被困在家中，与施暴者待在一起。联合国警告说，疫情将对女性造成“灾难性的影响”。
The coronavirus lockdown could lead to a 20% surge in domestic violence as victims remain trapped at home with their abusers, the United Nations predicted on Tuesday, warning the pandemic...
New York City has an opportunity practically unheard of in modern times - a chance to decide what to do with an island bigger than London's Hyde Park.
A record number of U.S. cities earned perfect scores this year for LGBT+ legal protections, extending their laws and policies to include more gay and transgender people, a leading rights ...
To better protect themselves from wildfires worsened by climate change, communities are pulling together to share information.
Norway and Switzerland are the best countries to be a woman and Yemen and Afghanistan the worst, said research on Tuesday which found the state of women's rights is not "all doom and gloo...
Enthusiasm for bringing more women into corporate boardrooms is dimming, but the biggest obstacle to women moving up in the corporate world is the very first step to manager, according to...
Philanthropist Melinda Gates plans to put $1 billion toward expanding women's power and influence in the United States over the next decade, saying on Wednesday she loses sleep over fears...
Skiing, ice hockey and outdoor skating are all affected by climate change, but can also be a resource to fight back.
Growing inequality and climate change will not only derail progress towards global sustainability goals but threaten human existence, leading scientists said at the United Nations on Wedn...
The wage gap between men and women in the United States failed to budge in 2018, government data showed on Tuesday, sparking calls for action to end pay discrimination.
Ten thousand people would need to be freed every day to eliminate modern slavery over the next decade, according to research on Wednesday showing countries making little or no progress in...
Relentless global warming threatens the potential success of a sweeping set of goals established by the United Nations to tackle inequality, conflict and other ills, officials have said.
