A 10-year-old girl named Deeqa Dahir Nuur died this week after what was supposed to be a standard female genital…
Today, scientists published a study demonstrating how extreme weather events are made more likely by anthropogenic…
A Somali woman and her two children were detained at Dulles Airport in Chantilly Virginia for 20 hours without food.
Halima Aden, a 19-year-old Somali-American woman from St. Cloud Minnesota, has become the first woman to wear a hijab…
Though the horrific practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is seeing a global decline, a new report by the United…
A Somali woman who'd been sentenced to one year in prison for "offending state institutions" by alleging she was raped…
Somalia has been devastated by conflict for decades, and now the country is dealing with famine as well. These factors…
The news out of Somalia is so often bad, which makes it extra nice to hear the heartwarming story of how a project…
A Somali town has banned women from working — to their great economic detriment.
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Three grassroots women's organizations in the town of Balad Hawa were closed yesterday to prevent women from going to…
• Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh report that girls at "weight extremes" - i.e. overweight or underweight -…
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