Women & Girls

September 13, 2019

A demonstration across the street from the White House Friday marked the first high-profile event of Greta Thunberg's six-day visit to Washington, intended to pressure the Trump administration ahead of a United Nations Climate Summit.

Displacement

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

PRI's The World

September 11, 2019

Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.

Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook

PRI's The World

September 10, 2019

What happens to the highly personal data people enter in period-tracking apps? In some cases, it gets fed to third parties — including Facebook.

Conflict & Justice

Finding resistance in fashion, Kashmiri creator turns to the pheran

PRI's The World

September 10, 2019

British Kashmiri writer Sumaya Teli is using the pheran, a traditional piece of Kashmiri clothing, to bring awareness to the situation in Kashmir.

Women & Girls

Indian women scientists' lunar mission a 'giant leap for womankind'

PRI's The World

September 06, 2019

India's Chandrayaan-2 is expected to land on the moon Friday as the country seeks its first successful landing. But with two female scientists leading the project, the lunar mission has already made history.

Health & Medicine

These Chilean women joined thousands suing for discriminatory health insurance. Can reforms fix it?

PRI's The World

August 28, 2019

Chile's private health insurance company, Isapres, doesn't want to insure sick people, says María Pilar Iturrieta, a lawyer in Santiago, who was denied health insurance for her daughter born with a cleft lip.

Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they want the world to know

The Conversation

August 21, 2019

With 1,812 women murdered between January and July this year — about 10 a day — Mexico is Latin America’s second-most dangerous country for women, after Brazil, according to the United Nations. More than 200 Mexican women have been kidnapped so far in 2019.

Reproductive rights

China’s Gen X moms turn to IVF in desperate quest for a second baby

GlobalPost

August 21, 2019

For decades, China’s one-child policy limited women to one child. In 2016, China introduced the two-child policy and now, older mothers are racing against their biological clocks to have another baby — with high emotional stakes.

Sexual violence

El Salvador abortion laws offer warning for the US, lawyer says

PRI's The World

August 20, 2019

After three years in jail, 21-year-old Evelyn Hernández from El Salvador was acquitted of murder charges Monday. A victim of rape, she was previously convicted of intentionally inducing an abortion after giving birth to a stillborn son.

Sexuality

South Korea's sex doll industry stirs controversy with 'life-size' imports

GlobalPost

August 20, 2019

South Korea's sex toy industry professionals say sex dolls are the answer to increasing loneliness in South Korean society. But critics have pushed back on the law and say these "real dolls" objectify women and lead to more sex crimes — a hot-button topic in the wake of South Korea's #MeToo movement.

Women & Girls

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg takes protest to climate-change denier Trump

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook

Finding resistance in fashion, Kashmiri creator turns to the pheran

Indian women scientists' lunar mission a 'giant leap for womankind'

These Chilean women joined thousands suing for discriminatory health insurance. Can reforms fix it?

Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they want the world to know

China’s Gen X moms turn to IVF in desperate quest for a second baby

El Salvador abortion laws offer warning for the US, lawyer says

South Korea's sex doll industry stirs controversy with 'life-size' imports

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