Exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, as well as the histories of women institutionalized in 19th-century asylums will open in the UB Anderson Gallery on Sept. 12. “Eighty-Six ...

UB Art Galleries is asking Buffalo residents for help in collecting and documenting personal mementos from women who were once confined to Buffalo State Asylum. Many of us have heard stories of ...

A recently published report on the state of affairs for refugee and asylum-seeking women residing in Israel sheds a painful light on the conditions these women live in and the corners they are pushed ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing ...

MADRID, Spain, June 9 (UNHCR) - In a precedent-setting decision, the Spanish Inter-ministerial Asylum Commission has given refuge to a 38-year-old woman, who could not find protection from decades of ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...