Ellen Wulfhorst
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A new Showtime series takes on the greatest hits of New York's gossip columnists
"Gossip" premieres on Showtime beginning August 22 at 8 p.m. EST. → Read More
Rising carbon levels threaten diets of hundreds of millions of poor
By 2050, nearly 300 mln people could lack enough zinc or protein and 1.4 bln women and children will be vulnerable to iron deficiency → Read More
Without family, U.S. children in foster care easy prey for human traffickers
"Nobody wanted me. This set me up to be vulnerable and needy" By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children removed from unfit families and put in foster care are terrifyingly vulnerable to being trafficked, a fact that Amy Andrews knows all too well. She spun in and out of her abusive family home into the child welfare system, starting when she was 10 years old. By… → Read More
Los Angeles making plans for sudden shocks, long-term calamity
The U.S. city faces risks including earthquakes, wildfires and rising heat, alongside bustling urban demands for energy → Read More
Despite debunking, conversion therapy persists around globe
Typically admitted to clinics by their families, gay people are forced to undergo beatings, solitary confinement, force-feeding of medicine and even → Read More
Time to "shine a light" and ban conversion therapies
Despite global gains, many gay people are still forced to undergo archaic and invasive therapy → Read More
Progress on global goals 'unacceptably slow' for women, says U.N.
"Alarmingly, many hard-won gender equality achievements are under threat" By Ellen Wulfhorst UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women are being left behind in the United Nations' ambitious goals to solve hunger, injustice and other global ills, and they remain poorer, sicker and more vulnerable to violence than men, the U.N. women's agency said on Wednesday. Progress to date… → Read More
United Nations head given a C+ grade from women's groups
Guterres has made unprecedented progress promoting women's rights but isn't → Read More
Sesame Street to bring laughter to war-hit children in Middle East
Project aims to reach 1.5 million refugee and displaced children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq → Read More
Number of international migrants jumps to 258 million people
3.4 percent of the population consists of international migrants → Read More
Number of international migrants jumps to 258 million people
3.4 percent of the population consists of international migrants → Read More
Among children, AIDS epidemic is far from over, UNICEF finds
At the current rate of infection, there will be 3.5 million new cases of HIV among adolescents by 2030 → Read More
Stop treating older women as technology "idiots", says campaigner
"The older you get, the more excluded you are" By Ellen Wulfhorst LONDON, Nov 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clever robots and advanced mobile phones could make life much easier for older women - if only someone would ask and stop treating them like "old idiots", said a top United Nations campaigner for the rights of the elderly. Silvia Perel-Levin, chairwoman of the U.N.'s NGO Committee on… → Read More
Forced to wed at 19, U.S. campaigner works to save others from child marriage
While campaigners are trying to stop child marriage in such places as Africa and Asia, few people realise that child marriage is legal in every one of the 50 U.S. ... → Read More
Forced to wed at 19, U.S. campaigner works to save others from child marriage
While campaigners are trying to stop child marriage in such places as Africa and Asia, few people realise that child marriage is legal in every one of the 50 U.S. ... → Read More
Yazidi survivor recounts harrowing captivity, daring escape in new book
"It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it" By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nadia Murad was captured, beaten and sold as a sex slave by Islamic State militants, a harrowing experience she would clearly like to put behind her, but she is telling her painful story in a new book published on Tuesday. In "The Last Girl," Murad… → Read More
Women vomit, march, then vie for office in record numbers under Trump
We have never seen anything like this before in our 32-year history → Read More
Some 200 million women work without laws against sex harassment
Globally, 68 countries do not prohibit sexual harassment at the workplace → Read More
Some 200 million women work without laws against sex harassment
Globally, 68 countries do not prohibit sexual harassment at the workplace → Read More
Some 200 million women work without laws against sex harassment
Globally, 68 countries do not prohibit sexual harassment at the workplace → Read More