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03/12/2024

A testament to the incredible courage of women resisting the brutal ultra-misogynist regime

Getting footage from the ground was a challenge for the director of Bread & Roses. The documentary, which profiles three women who engage in protests, is now streaming on Apple TV+.

16/10/2024

The theme of this year’s International Day of the Girl is, ‘Girls’ vision for the future’. Research from UNICEF shows that girls are not only courageous in the face of challenges, but hopeful for the future. Today, and every day, is an opportunity for the world to get behind their vision, in...

15/10/2024

She often gets erased in the history of science

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

15/10/2024

Bravo!

The council on Monday approved rezoning a 31-acre York Street Yards property that was formerly a military depot.

15/10/2024

“Women and girls are overrepresented among the poor at every stage of life, with the largest gaps during their childbearing years. Women aged 25-34 are 25 per cent more likely to live in extremely poor households.”

UN Women’s latest flagship report reveals a widening gender gap in social protection – the raft of policies including cash benefits, unemployment protection, pensions and healthcare – leaving women and girls more vulnerable to poverty.

01/10/2024

The plight of Afghanistan’s women in 2024 provides a grim coda to the saga of the U.S.’s role in the country since 2001. It’s a tale of tragedy and hubris, misadventures and corruption, and — in the final, bleak reckoning — a tale of failure.

16/09/2024

How horrible! Deliberately hateful law to inflict panic and suffering on so many

As red states pass laws limiting gender-affirming care and abortions, families are moving. One expert calls it “an uncountable diaspora”

16/09/2024

Bravo!

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing out on social media to protest the ban on singing.

15/09/2024

Absolutely horrifying - erasing women’s voices and participation in public life.

Afghan religious police wield new power to enforce a ban on women raising their voices in public and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives.

04/09/2024

Rights groups and many Iraqi women fear the country's parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law.

23/08/2024

Outrageous and unbelievable! A campaign to eliminate women from public life

They fired all the officers who wouldn't grow beards, and now they're banning the sound of women's voices singing or reading

04/07/2024

Bravo!

Breakdancing gave Manizha Talash a sense of purpose, but it put her life at risk after regime change in Afghanistan.

24/06/2024

The International Women’s Media Foundation rescinded the award and response to who sang is coverage of Israeli brutality in Gaza.

We go to Gaza to speak with Palestinian journalist Maha Hussaini after the International Women’s Media Foundation came under fire for rescinding its Courage in Journalism Award to her following a smear campaign. Hussaini is an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate who has extensively ...

22/06/2024

In the Mexican desert near the US border, security forces are on alert after a man was found dead from heat stroke on the journey to what he hoped would be a better life in North America.The 45-year-old Mexican man's body was found buried among sand and bushes under the merciless sun, a week after a...

22/06/2024

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned Friday that her right-wing colleagues' finding that American citizens have no right to have their foreign spouses admitted to the United States will disproportionately harm same-sex couples—and could foreshadow a future reversal of federal LGBTQ+ m...

18/06/2024

Very sad. The Tattered Cover was a major beloved and independent bookstore and icon in Denver and is now being gobbled up by a big corporation.

The Tattered Cover, a beloved Denver institution and nationally known independent bookstore, has accepted a sales offer from Barnes & Noble, a model for the fictionalized corporate bookstore ch…

15/06/2024

Outrageous! Roy is a brilliant writer, scholar, and activist whose courage and passion is now being persecuted by the extremist Indian government.

Official from ruling BJP party allows action against Booker winner under controversial anti-terrorism law

05/06/2024

“Canceling Russia has left many Russian intellectuals, students, middle-class and open-minded people feeling discriminated against by the West, so they have begun to change their minds and support the propaganda. “ Also, the corporatization of media has led to a decline of in-depth investigative stories, which results in a global void that has silenced cross-cultural understanding of human stories across Russia

Russian journalist-activist Nadezhda Azhgikhina on Ukraine, global journalism, and women's roles in Russia-U.S. peace negotiations.