CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Girl Scout from Cedar Falls received the Gold Award for her push to fight period poverty in schools, a project that led to the development of Iowa Bill HF883. Elle Smith, ...

LONDON, March 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Chat show queen Oprah Winfrey, actress Meryl Streep and singer Elton John called on Monday for world leaders to put girls at the heart of anti-poverty ...

For millions of women and girls in Nigeria, a natural biological process has become a monthly ordeal - one that strips them of dignity, threatens their health, and deepens social inequality. This ...

If you’re not born with a silver spoon, then you have to work twice as had to be successful because it is never easy to maintain success. Poverty is a mindset; you have to wean yourself of it. Leaders ...

BLANTYRE, MALAWI — Malawi and its development partners are trying something new to help the country’s most vulnerable women and girls get out of extreme poverty. Besides enhancing their socio-economic ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...