Women & Girls

September 14, 2018

Sahar Fetrat was only 15 years old when she first picked up a camera. She used it to shoot a video for a school project. But soon she found it to be a powerful weapon against harassers.

Untold Afghanistan

Changing your face to disguise your ethnicity? Maybe, for these Afghan women.

PRI's The World

September 13, 2018

Wars leave behind scars. Emotional ones. Physical ones. And for years, in Afghanistan, the physical ones were the ones surgeons fixed. But in the past couple of years, there’s been a boom in cosmetic surgery.

Untold Afghanistan

Today, women's clothing in Afghanistan includes far more than the blue burqa

PRI's The World

September 12, 2018

Fashion is powerful. It can be used as a political tool. It can be a statement about identity. It can also be healing. In Afghanistan, it is all of that and more.

Untold Afghanistan

After surviving an attack on their school in Kabul, these students show that ‘education prevails’

PRI's The World

September 11, 2018

In 2016, students at the American University in Kabul watched as gunmen opened fire on their school. More than a dozen people were killed and many more injured. But the attack didn't stop students from pursuing their dreams.

Untold Afghanistan

She saved a pregnant woman’s life. Now, she works to make childbirth safer for all Afghan women.

PRI's The World

September 10, 2018

The Taliban forbids women to leave the house unless they are accompanied by a male relative. Feroza Mushtari, who was a teenager at the time of the Taliban takeover, defied that rule to save a pregnant woman's life.

Conflict & Justice

Syrian revolution changed how women are viewed in the workplace

GlobalPost

August 30, 2018

Many Syrian refugee women are now working informally in their new host countries or learning new skills to contribute to their families.

Women & Girls

Scotland tries to combat poverty by providing free menstrual products

PRI's The World

August 28, 2018

Victoria Heaney started the #FreePeriodScotland campaign that caught the attention of the Scottish government and, ultimately, helped spur a conversation across Scotland about the fight against period poverty.

In Japan, working mothers battle overwork culture

PRI's The World

August 24, 2018

Japan's business culture expects workers to stay late. But working mothers who also have to shoulder more childcare responsibilities often find themselves trapped between both roles.

Sexuality

In Ghana, gender equality and economics clash

GlobalPost

August 17, 2018

In Ghana, as is the case in other countries, the gender conversation is complicated. Not everyone shares the same view, but a recent controversy over an interview CNN’s Christiane Amanpour had with a local actress and model Moesha Boduong made this connection clear.

Women & Girls

'Give her a voice': Activists say women with disabilities in India need independence

GlobalPost

August 14, 2018

In India, women with disabilities are particularly at risk for sexual assault. A report from Human Rights Watch details the stigma that these women face.