Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021.

But through her work with the community-based Myanmar Ethnic Women Refugee Organization, she met other women suffering in silence, and when she was invited to help devise and lead a project to support ...

As a Darfuri woman, immigrant and refugee, I know what it means to be displaced. I know the pain of losing your home, your ...

The nonprofit group Ladies Let's Talk offers free basic English classes for female refugees from Afghanistan, the first step in a better life.

The theme of International Women’s Day this year is #PledgeForParity – seeking to narrow the gender gap in areas ranging from leadership to pay. Women and girls uprooted by war and unrest face ...

That means one third of this group remain unemployed – a significantly higher rate than among the general population, the ...

Dozens packed into the sixth floor of the Lowell Community Health Center Friday afternoon for an International Institute of New England event honoring the cultures and achievements of refugee women… ...

A program called Women Behind the Wheel offers 14 hours of free drivers’ education to mostly refugee and immigrant women.

The refugees escaping the civil war in Sudan recount the violence which took the lives of many men and boys. That violence, they say, was directed towards those of particular tribes and skin colors.

Charities have warned staff not to wear lanyards and ID badges, and have had to provide workers with additional security ...

About 250 Rohingya refugees crammed onto a wooden boat were turned away by locals off the coast of Aceh province.