Womens Rights

Mudslide survivors on November 15th, 2017.

A new initiative—looking to equalize the gender gap in the workforce—calls for hiring an equal number of men and women to help restore a shattered mountainside.

By Kadia Goba

News in Brief

Abortion rights activists comfort each other outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 9th, 2018, after senators rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion.

By Pacific Standard Staff

A Saudi woman poses for the camera as she uses a go-cart during a driving workshop for women in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on June 21st, 2018. Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive from June 24th, ending the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform marred by what rights groups call an expanding crackdown on activists.

The Week in Photos

Saudi Arabia is set to lift its decades-old ban on women driving on Sunday.

By Varun Nayar

Social Justice

Thousands of Brazilians protest against a controversial bill that aims to cut the right to abortion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 13th, 2017.

By Pacific Standard Staff

People inspect the damage from Cyclone Winston at the Namuimada settlement in Fiji on February 26th, 2016.

COP23

Forecasters in the region predict an average cyclone season for the Pacific Islands, but Fiji is still recovering from the last major hurricane to batter the island nation.