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
GlobalPost
April 26, 2018
Following a protracted trial many believe put the plaintiff under more scrutiny than the defendants, the men were condemned to nine years of prison each for the less severe crime of sexual abuse, instead of the 22 years and 10 months demanded by the prosecution.
Health
PRI's The World
April 26, 2018
Since its publication by Simon & Schuster in 1973, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has changed the way women view their bodies and how health care professionals view women's health. Here's a look at the impact the book has had globally.
Conflict
GlobalPost
April 24, 2018
The 43-year-old Cáceres was killed in 2016 by gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. She had fought against a dam project from Desarrollos Energéticos S.A., or DESA, that was to be built along the Gualcarque River, considered sacred to her indigenous Lenca people.
Culture
GlobalPost
April 20, 2018
About 15 cities around the country have passed their own anti-discrimination ordinances but none have quite followed through with the vigor and determination as Quezon City, a bustling metropolis about 9 miles from the Philippine capital of Manila.
Culture
PRI's The World
April 18, 2018
Italian actress and activist Asia Argento, one of the first women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, came under a lot of backlash in her native Italy. Still, Argento says she doesn’t regret her action and hopes she can change some of Italy’s misogynist culture.
Culture
GlobalPost
April 16, 2018
A group of 15 kids, mostly former dropouts themselves, fan out across Kolkata's slums to free children like themselves from the constraints of child labor and child marriages — by getting them back in school.
Global Politics
PRI's The World
April 16, 2018
As Cecile Richard's tenure at Planned Parenthood comes to a close, she talks with us about the global gag rule and reproductive rights.
Conflict
PRI's The World
April 16, 2018
In 2015, 40-year-old Ronna Stone was looking at another prison sentence until she was offered a way out and a new life.
Religion
PRI's The World
April 16, 2018
The right to life of the unborn is protected by Ireland's constitution. The Eighth Amendment was passed by national referendum in 1983. In May, Irish voters will take part in another referendum. This time, they're being asked whether they want to repeal the abortion ban.
Conflict
PRI's The World
April 13, 2018
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Lifestyle
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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Conflict
Update: Indiana sentences Purvi Patel to decades in prison for what she says was a miscarriage
PRI's The World
March 13, 2015
Updated
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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Belief
She's an imam in LA and doesn't have patience for a strict interpretation of Islam
BBC News
July 17, 2015
Updated
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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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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Election 2016
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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Global Politics
PHOTOS: It's official. The Women's March has swept the globe
PRI's The World
January 21, 2017
Updated
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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Culture
Fighting to put a woman on the $20 bill
The Takeaway
March 18, 2015
Updated
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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Education
Until recently this school in South Africa told black girls to chemically straighten their hair
PRI's The World
August 30, 2016
Updated
“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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Global 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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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.