Despite International Pressure, Paraguay Denies Abortion for 10-Year-Old Girl

Paraguay’s government has rejected the recommendation of the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights regarding a 10-year-old girl raped by her stepfather, once aga...

New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master

It’s been not quite 30 years since a group of young Hong Kong-based moviemakers, now in or near their 60s, reinvented the gangster film, infusing the motifs of the Am...

‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator Has Strong Words For Women In Hollywood: ‘It’s Up To Them’

“Gilmore Girls” was ground-breaking in many ways. It was a show that celebrated women, family and small-town New England. But perhaps its greatest contribution ...

Move Over, Alexander Hamilton: A Woman Is Going On The $10 Bill

A woman will be featured on the new version of the $10 bill, the Treasury Department is set to formally announce on Thursday. “America’s currency is a way for o...

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

US Catholics Ready To Follow Pope's 'Marching Orders' On Climate Change

Leaders of the Catholic church in America took their ?marching orders? from the pope?s encyclical on Thursday, fanning out to Congress and the White House to push for actio...

India’s Largest Film Festival Is Back 6th Jagran Film Festival To Commence Its 17 City Tour From Delhi

~The 2015 edition set to travel and touch lives of film lovers across length and breadth of India ~

~ Embellished with regional, Indian and world cinema as well as ...

New Film Prize Created To Promote Better Roles For Women

The New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project and Phosphate Productions have partnered to create a new prize, The Phosphate Prize at IFP, to encourage indie film writers...

Gale Anne Hurd & Nina Jacobson Talk Diversity & “White Male Apple Cart” On Women Producers Panel At LA Film Fest

“You have to represent people of color, women and diversity not only in front of the camera but behind it too,” said Gale Anne Hurd today, on how to fix Hollywo...