Women & Girls

September 21, 2021

The UN General Assembly kicks off its 76th session at the UN headquarters in New York. Also, Canadians vote to keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power in snap elections, but his party fails to secure a majority in parliament. And, Sudanese officials say they've thwarted an attempted coup.

Afghanistan

Afghan women sidelined under new Taliban rule: ‘This country places no value on me as a woman’

The World

September 20, 2021

The Taliban have ordered all schools in Afghanistan to reopen after months of closure amid the pandemic and the war. But they haven’t allowed girls to return to school and the future for millions of female students remains unclear.

Afghanistan

'It is a catastrophe': Afghans are in desperate need of food, humanitarian aid, refugee worker says

The World

September 16, 2021

Astrid Sletten, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s office in Kabul, spoke to The World’s Carol Hills about the level of need in Afghanistan and what aid organizations are able to deliver in the current environment.

Afghanistan

Afghan women to the Taliban: #DoNotTouchMyClothes

The World

September 14, 2021

The Taliban has issued a decree calling for female university students to fully cover their bodies and most of their faces in a return to Afghan tradition. Historian Bahar Jalali fully disagrees. She started a now-viral campaign over the weekend to showcase the diversity of Afghan women's traditional dress.

COVID-19

Pregnant women and children with HIV in Ghana struggle to access lifesaving medicine during pandemic

The World

September 14, 2021

Ghana faces an acute shortage of antiretroviral drugs, endangering the health and the lives of tens of thousands of HIV-positive children and pregnant women. Health officials say this has pushed their efforts to end the AIDS epidemic backward.

Top of The World

Taliban names all-male 33-member interim government in Afghanistan

The World

September 08, 2021

Top of The World: The Taliban has announced a 33-member interim government for Afghanistan, weeks after taking control of the country. And, the trial of 20 men accused in the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris has started in a courtroom in the French capital. Also, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies as unconstitutional.

Reproductive rights

Undocumented women face shrinking options for reproductive health care under Texas abortion law

The World

September 02, 2021

Nancy Cárdenas Peña, the Texas director for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, joined The World's host Marco Werman to talk about the impact of Texas' new abortion law on undocumented women at the US-Mexico border.

Afghanistan

'We are so afraid': An Afghan women's rights activist is left behind in Afghanistan

The World

August 31, 2021

A women's rights expert joins The World's host Marco Werman to talk about what life is like in Kabul, now that the US military has completely withdrawn and the Taliban is in full control.

Critical State

Checking in on the pandemic: Part I

Inkstick Media

August 31, 2021

Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, takes a deep dive this week into new research that tests the question of whether women mayors in Brazil outperform their male counterparts in pandemic response.

Afghanistan

'If journalists leave a scene, it becomes a black hole,' VOA journalist in Kabul says

The World

August 19, 2021

Ayesha Tanzeem, the Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief for Voice of America, waited on Thursday at the airport for a flight out. She caught up with The World's host Marco Werman to describe what she witnessed there — and the future of journalism under Taliban rule.

Women & Girls

UNGA 76th session convenes in New York

Afghan women sidelined under new Taliban rule: ‘This country places no value on me as a woman’

'It is a catastrophe': Afghans are in desperate need of food, humanitarian aid, refugee worker says

Afghan women to the Taliban: #DoNotTouchMyClothes

Pregnant women and children with HIV in Ghana struggle to access lifesaving medicine during pandemic

Taliban names all-male 33-member interim government in Afghanistan

Undocumented women face shrinking options for reproductive health care under Texas abortion law

'We are so afraid': An Afghan women's rights activist is left behind in Afghanistan

Checking in on the pandemic: Part I

'If journalists leave a scene, it becomes a black hole,' VOA journalist in Kabul says

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