Few foreigners who travel to Thailand are familiar with the town of Mae Sot. Lying along the northwestern border with Burma, Mae Sot appears to have none of the excitement and appeal of Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Yet for those fleeing conflict and[...]

On a dusky evening in spring, we travel to the northwestern outskirts of Beijing, where 400,000 of the 7 million Beijing-based migrant workers and their families reside. Our guide is the gracious Pat Yang, Founder and Director of The Zigen Fund,[...]

  I do not describe myself, people describe me as they wish...   ...but above all I am an international citizen       Women's Worldwide Web interviews a wonderful woman whose relentless efforts to combat social injustice and to[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web mourns the loss and celebrates the life of Geraldine A. Ferraro—the first woman in the United States to run as vice president on a major party national ticket, and a great leader in women’s rights and social equality[...]

"On International Women’s Day, let’s not forget men. Men, by definition, have a vital role to play alongside women: men have been involved in, and need to be more involved in, initiatives to combat violence against women; men have[...]

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. Rosa Parks (1913—2005)     Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913, of African-American, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish[...]

As Valentine's Day approaches, we celebrate the achievements of another V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. "Eve Ensler, the feminist playwright who wrote 'The Vagina Monologues' and who has worked[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web salutes the Egyptian novelist, activist, and physician Dr. Nawal el Saadawi for her life-long advocacy of women’s and children’s rights, particularly her courageous and passionate efforts to eradicate the practice[...]

"There has been so much injustice and oppression in Iraq, for such a long time. To fight it is almost an obligation."   Houzan Mahmoud was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973. As a Kurd living under the regime of Saddam Hussein, she grew up[...]

“Often lost in the telling are the invisible foot soldiers who made China’s stirring rise possible: the country’s 130 million migrant workers, the subject of Leslie T. Chang’s Factory Girls.” – New York Times   Leslie T.[...]