Across Women's Lives
Newsworthy stories and engagement opportunities focused on the issues facing women and girls around the world. More information is found here.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
October 19, 2017
Some Syrian parents are marrying off their young daughters to protect them from the ravages of war, but these girls yearn for an education.
Politics
PRI's The World
October 10, 2017
Voters went to the polls in Liberia Tuesday to replace Africa's first female head of state. And gender politics are playing a big role.
Science, Tech & Environment
PRI's The World
October 10, 2017
After Hurricane Maria, one family in Boston has been unable to speak to relatives in Puerto Rico. So, they asked us to bring a letter with us and deliver it.
Arts, Culture & Media
October 10, 2017
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10/10/2017 - 2:15pm
Multiple award-winning Turkish author Asli Erdogan is no longer trapped in her native Turkey.
Politics
PRI's The World
October 09, 2017
President Donald Trump took to Twitter recently to call San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, “nasty.” Her response? “I don’t give a sh-t.”
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Conflict & Justice
Update: Indiana sentences Purvi Patel to decades in prison for what she says was a miscarriage
PRI's The World
March 13, 2015
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Purvi Patel is the second pregnant woman in Indiana to be charged under the state's law against "feticide," a law originally passed to protect pregnant women from harm. Patel was sentenced Monday to face up to 20 years in prison, in a case has alarmed advocates for women and immigrants.
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Lifestyle & Belief
She's an imam in LA and doesn't have patience for a strict interpretation of Islam
BBC News
July 17, 2015
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Ani Zonneveld started as a Grammy award-winning songwriter. Now she spends her time challenging conservative interpretation of her Muslim faith and has become an imam that embraces gender equality, gay rights and interfaith marriage.
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Lifestyle & Belief
The advice that older women have for the young on love, marriage
February 01, 2015
Choose carefully. That's what a a Cornell gerontologist says elderly women want younger women to know about love and marriage. Listen to what your friends say, and, as old-fashioned as this sounds, ask yourself: Is your partner a good "provider?"
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Lifestyle & Belief
I'm a woman in America, and I wasn't allowed to drive
PRI's The World
January 22, 2015
Saudi Arabia may be the only country where women aren't allowed to drive, but it’s not the only place where woman are forbidden from getting behind the wheel. It even happens in some communities in the US.
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Politics
A cross-generational group of US women is planning a nationwide strike against Trump
December 05, 2016
They may be decades apart, but the women organizing the Dec. 12 strike have their eyes set on one prize: getting the electoral college to change their votes.
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Politics
PHOTOS: It's official. The Women's March has swept the globe
PRI's The World
January 21, 2017
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Tens of thousands of women and men turned out for the March on Washington's sister marches in cities and countries around the globe. See the pictures.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Fighting to put a woman on the $20 bill
The Takeaway
March 18, 2015
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It's time, one group says, to end the monopoly of men on US paper currency. President Barack Obama thinks it's about time, too.
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Development & Education
Until recently this school in South Africa told black girls to chemically straighten their hair
PRI's The World
August 30, 2016
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“If we cannot be black in school, where can we be black?” asks an alum of Pretoria High School for Girls. “Where can we be black if we can’t be black in Africa?”
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Politics
In Mumbai, 'shock and horror' over Trump’s statements about women
PRI's The World
October 14, 2016
“This is happening in a country we look up to as a progressive, and really a developed nation.”
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Conflict & Justice
After seven years in the Dublin sex trade, Rachel Moran says prostitution is always abuse
PRI's The World
October 01, 2015
Rachel Moran was 14 years old when she began working as a prostitute on Dublin's streets. She says countries around the world should criminalize buyers of sex, but treat sellers as exploited victims.