WASHINGTON, March 29 (UPI) -- Global water supplies create an increasing problem for growing population and the agriculture need to feed the additional people.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 28 (UPI) -- Easter is a celebration of springtime rebirth -- a good time to enumerate reasons for optimism and the tasks necessary to accomplish America's potential.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- The decision in a lawsuit for unrestricted access to the drug for women under 18, brought by the National Women 's Liberation against the government, is expected any day.
NEW YORK, March 27 (UPI) -- On March 22, 160 New York and New Jersey young professionals took on the challenge of sleeping out one night to raise awareness about homeless youth.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Mainstream culture is so fixated on dieting that many rights activists shun the topic. But when a woman is trying to lose weight, she needs protection from self-hatred and dangerous dieting. She needs feminism.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Second only to Russia itself, Ukraine is the most important country of the former Soviet Union for U.S. policy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
HERNDON, Va., March 26 (UPI) -- It is fairly well accepted that President Vladimir Putin's Russia is a democracy in name only as the trial of Sergei Magnitsky demonstrates.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- The term has served as a legal code for racism. Today, historian Doris Weatherford writes that state lawmakers have also long imposed legal restrictions on U.S. women. Now it's the framework for the shrinkage of access to reproductive health care and medical privacy.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 25 (UPI) -- Cyprus would be better off to leave the euro than accept the terms of the bailout imposed by the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank.
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- On his quick trip to Israel and Jordan, President Obama repaired broken diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey in exchange for Iranian sanctions.
PARIS, March 25 (UPI) -- Only a fool would deny the ability of the EU to concoct some last-minute rescue for Cyprus that keeps the great euro suspense drama limping wearily onward.
WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- North Africa is a huge area that is becoming a safe haven for terror groups. Does the United States need to be involved there?
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 21 (UPI) -- Conservative prescriptions do offer the best path to a robust prosperity but voters won’t accept Republican protection of privilege and prejudices.
WASHINGTON {WOMENSENEWS}-- Along the miles of transcontinental pipeline being built to transport oil from the tar sands of Canada, women are fighting the project. One put her body in front of a bulldozer. Another is challenging eminent domain seizure of her family's land.
WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel, Iran will dominate the agenda but in the United States the economy is still a looming issue.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- Women are often assaulted and raped in conflict-ridden countries and Women Under Siege is keeping track. As the project grows and spans more and more countries, its founding director stays busy breaking the silence.
WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- A former national security adviser says the United States faces its biggest threat since the fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union: Cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare.
HERNDON, Va., March 19 (UPI) -- It was surprising to observe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a diehard Islamist, conduct himself as a man of compassion.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- Male models and others involved with the Hunks4Hope calendar project talk about the need to end domestic violence and help survivors. Footage was taken on March 10, in neighborhoods around New York.
WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- It isn't often that one gets to report undiluted good news but we now know that the world has achieved the main target of the Millennium Development Goals.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- The Family Medical Leave Act was passed 20 years ago and despite the hue and cry, the sky did not fall on employers or the economy. It's time to extend these vital protections to more workers and more obligations.
Beyonce arrives on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo