Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course ...

Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart: Toting guns, these women of the Wild West shot down the view that life as a female pioneer was about cooking, sewing, cleaning and caring for ...

The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women in Congo by providing conditional cash transfers, training, and small business grants, enabling them to start agricultural cooperatives and ...

Refugees in Igne, Republic of Congo founded an agricultural cooperative to transform small land plots into thriving farms. Credit: Lisungi / World Bank. The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women ...