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.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
August 16, 2017
Samia Orosemane is a French stand-up comedian of Tunisian descent, who jokes about stereotypes of Africans and Muslim women ... and of course, about her mother.
Lifestyle & Belief
GlobalPost
August 15, 2017
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08/16/2017 - 9:00am
Women’s rights groups are furious at what they see as a regressive judgment that prioritizes keeping children in families over the rights of the woman.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
August 11, 2017
“It’s got a burning vagina in the middle and there are all men — so it’s like they are warming themselves around a burning vagina. Which, to me, is pretty much South Africa.”
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
August 10, 2017
Could high bride prices be fueling global terrorism, conflict and instability? Yes, say two academics in a new article published in MIT Press Journals. And they say the US should wake up and address it.
Lifestyle & Belief
PRI's The World
August 10, 2017
"The blessers are high, high-risk men, because these are men who are probably married, and they’ve got multiple partners."
Lifestyle & Belief
PRI's The World
August 09, 2017
“What this virus has taught is that you can be a researcher, you can design something amazing … and then people don’t use it.” That's the challenge facing medical researchers looking for ways for women to protect themselves from HIV infection.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
August 07, 2017
South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. For 20 years, talk radio shows have been giving advice on how to stop the spread of the virus. But are South Africans listening?
Health & Medicine
PRI's The World
August 04, 2017
Nhlanhla found out she was pregnant when she was just 16. Then she learned that she was also HIV positive. "When you find out you are positive there is no time for pointing fingers," she says.
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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
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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Lifestyle & 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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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
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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Arts, Culture & Media
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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Development & 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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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.