Vazquez’s administration has also failed to declare the requested state of emergency. Women take back their streets. A woman was killed every week in Puerto Rico between 2014 and 2018, around ...

Women gather in Puerto Rico's financial district "Milla de Oro," International Women's Day, to protest and defend their rights to access effective health services, public safety, and eradicate ...

The Movimiento Amplio de Mujeres de Puerto Rico-MAMPR (General Organization of Women of Puerto Rico), a rights coalition, has denounced the government for not doing more to confront this issue. On ...

Furious over the alarming number of women murdered in Puerto Rico, feminists on the island have for years conducted sit-ins, scuffled with the police, blocked roads and even staged mock crime ...

Puerto Rico's team reacts at the end of the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying basketball match between France and Puerto Rico, at the Prado stadium in Bourges, France, Feb. 9, 2020.

Puerto Rico U20 enter their final group-stage clash with everything on the line, aiming to keep slim advancement hopes alive. After a tough 3-1 defeat to the United States, their fate now hinges on ...

Rivera Lassén, the Puerto Rico honoree for USA TODAY's Women of the Year, reflects on the experiences that brought her to where she is now, and the work that still needs to be done so that the ...

Puerto Rico’s women’s basketball team has qualified for the Olympic Games for the first time, according to the International Basketball Federation.

A little more than 10 weeks ago, Hurricane Maria ripped through the island of Puerto Rico. The island’s 3.4 million residents faced devastating losses. Homes and businesses were destroyed. Lives ...

Luisa Capetillo, left, was a labor organizer and one of Puerto Rico's foundational feminists. Right, women on Election Day in 1936, the first year all women on the island could vote.