How Women Changed the World This Year
From Colombia to Iran, feminism is an increasingly unstoppable force.
Looking away from Russian corruption led to Ukraine war, says one of Putin’s leading adversaries
Maria Pevchikh, Chief Investigator at the Anti-Corruption Foundation on the fight to expose the people who poisoned their founder Alexei Navalny and challenging some of the most powerful men in Russia.
Qatar’s World Cup Legacy Is Stranded Worker Widows
As the most controversial World Cup in recent memory draws to a close, thousands of widows across South Asia are left picking up the pieces of their shattered lives.
Women under pressure as finance sector makes push into remittances
Women migrants send back half of global remittances. Women who stay back receive most of them. One scholar warns that this money is being targeted.
Decade of advocacy fails to reduce global femicides
A new study by UN Women and the UNODC found that 81,000 women were killed globally in 2021 in murders that were motivated by their gender.
Reporter’s Notebook: Migrant women in Qatar’s hotels speak out
Migrant women working in Qatar's World Cup hotels have said they were ignored when they made allegations of harassment or abuse.
Female migrant workers speak out about harassment in Qatar’s World Cup hotels
As the FIFA World Cup starts, migrant women working in Qatar's hotels say their allegations of harassment or abuse have been ignored.
From abortion to wellness: an “indie” clinic pivots to survive in the post-Roe landscape
After the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal protection of abortion, clinics across the Southeast and Midwest closed this summer. But Feminist Women’s Health Center, an independent abortion clinic with a long history in Atlanta,…
“Neither a widow nor a wife”: India’s abandoned brides
Fraudster husbands in India get married and make promises to take their new wives abroad. But once they receive a dowry, they leave the brides behind. Abused and defrauded, these women are trying to put…
For the first time in decades, there are no women on China’s top leadership team
Dr. Leta Hong Fincher, speaks on the lack of women leaders in China’s President Xi Jinping's Politburo.
Why climate change means women are having to work harder and longer
Women and girls living in poorer countries are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
India’s top court has expanded abortion rights for unmarried women. We spoke to the lawyer who fought for the change.
A court in India began considering a case that would result in a landmark expansion of abortion access on the other side of the world.
In Conversation: Journalist Zahra Joya and Scholar/Activist Esha Momeni on the struggle for women’s rights in Afghanistan, Iran and beyond
There are forces driving the erosion of women’s rights in Afghanistan, Iran and beyond, including in the United States.
Reporter’s Notebook: Ukraine’s women farmers battle air raids and blockades to keep the world fed
As the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine plays a crucial role in the global food supply and the Russian invasion has had a devastating impact. Contributor Amie Ferris-Rotman spoke to the women farmers fighting to keep the world fed as war rages around them.
The Ukrainian women farmers fighting to keep the world fed
The war in Ukraine is taking a terrible toll on the country’s farmers and the world’s hungry, exacerbating an already crippling food crisis. These Ukrainian women farmers on the front lines of Russia’s hunger war.
Financial Pandemic: 'What I thought was a great salary wasn’t so great with more than 65 percent inflation'
Argentine Silvana Perona, 45, spent much of the past two decades working in finance in Europe but moved home to Buenos Aires during the pandemic to be closer to her elderly parents. Even though her work is well-paid, the country's worst inflation in 30 years has left her counting every penny.
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- For a refugee in crisis-hit Lebanon, even buying bread is a struggle
- As living costs spiral in Kenya, a mother sacrifices to spare family from ‘dire times’
- ‘Sri Lanka is not a country for poor people now’ - A Lima woman is fighting to feed her community as food prices soar
India is trying to reduce maternal mortality without engaging with a key contributor: suicide
India has made enormous strides in reducing maternal mortality. But that success has exposed a largely unaddressed phenomenon: high rates of suicides around the time of childbirth.
Eighteen months in, Myanmar’s garment workers face widespread abuse under military rule
New research documents the alleged abuse of over 60,000 garment workers under military rule, with Zara, H&M, Lidl and Bestseller linked to the most cases.
