A new study by Harvard researchers shows that the average height of poor women in some developing countries has significantly declined in the past few decades. Suggested Reading Inside Madam C.J.

Population used to be the environmental issue to end all environmental issues — and Paul Ehrlich was responsible. In 1968 Ehrlich, a demographer, and his wife Anne published The Population Bomb, which ...

Responding to President Obama’s request, House Democrats cut a provision from the stimulus package that would expand contraceptive family planning for Medicaid patients—usually poor women and girls.

You started the first ever bank for rural women in India, almost 30 years ago. Then you set up a business school for rural women, then business chambers for rural women, livelihoods programmes, then ...

A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England's most vulnerable children while battling their local authorities. Today, the UK faces a major ...

A new study by QUT researchers found that financial credit alone cannot break the cycle of poverty for women in Bangladesh. Instead, a "credit-plus" approach combining loans with tailored support ...

Bernardo García, executive director of the Casablanca Declaration, a coalition that calls for the universal abolition of surrogacy, said that in reality the practice amounts to “the exploitation of ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One million women living in poverty in Britain have experienced extensive violence and abuse, a report said on Wednesday, which makes them more likely to attempt ...

A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England's most vulnerable children while battling their local authorities. A rare collection of ...