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Female entrepreneurs of color have a hard time getting the money men to open...
Black women own 1.5 million businesses and represent the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the US. Their companies generate about $44 billion a year.Yet black women received only 0.2 percent of...
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The bigger problems behind Brazil's recent disease outbreaks
As researchers in Brazil and around the world rush figure out more about the link between Zika and the birth defect microcephaly, many Rio residents say the answer to the health crisis lies not in a...
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Not many fish are left to bite in Rio's trash-lined bay
Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay has been getting lots of attention over the last few months, and for all the wrong reasons.The bay is filthy. Communities across Rio spew their sewage untreated into its...
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Lindy Hopping down memory lane in Rio
I thought I knew Anne Bailey. Anne’s the video journalist on the Across Women’s Lives team. Anne and I have travelled together a lot — to India, Kenya and now Brazil.But it turns out that there is so...
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Meet a 23-year-old traveling the world on a bicycle to collect stories of...
Devi Lockwood is a 23-year-old poet and touring cyclist turned professional storyteller from Boston. And she's traveling the world by bicycle and boat to collect 1,001 stories about water and climate...
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Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics
There's a serious water pollution problem that could affect this summer's Olympic Games in Rio: the city’s polluted Guanabara Bay.It's still an unresolved problem, just six months before the Games...
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Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies...
The Zika outbreak has highlighted an important issue in Latin America and the Caribbean — the region has some of the world's most restrictive abortion policies. This has led to another set of...
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These activists have been fighting lack of diversity in the arts for over 30...
Before there were hashtags, there were the Guerrilla Girls. They have Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and all those social media things. But what really gets them excited is taking up physical...
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Callie Crossley: The NFL has an 'UnSuper' record on sexual assault
By now it shouldn’t be a surprise that football and football players continue to get a pass when it comes to sexual assault.And yet, I am stunned about how much the sport protects the players, while...
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Mothers fear having babies at hospital once hailed for promoting Israeli,...
The maternity staff at Hadassah Hospital at Mount Scopus prides itself on bringing Jewish babies into the world side-by-side with Palestinian ones.Outside the delivery room on the sixth floor, a Jewish...
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It’s not just Kesha. Women face demands for transactional sex all over the...
Vickie Remoe was born in Sierra Leone, but her family left during the civil war in 1997 when she was 12. She went on to get an undergraduate degree at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and returned to...
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As a child, the beach was synonymous with tar on my feet
I’ve always LOVED water. My parents used to joke that I was part fish. When I was young, we’d go to the beach every single weekend, scouring the sand for shells, hermit crabs, and all sorts of fun...
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Banned from the beach for pollution, these Brazilians brought beach culture...
Rio de Janeiro is a beach town. Except many people living there can't go to their beach nearby — the beaches off of Guanabara Bay are disgusting and polluted.So while thousands soak up the famous rays...
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The face of Target (and others) in Bangladesh, at 400 pieces an hour
The garment industry has been under scrutiny in Bangladesh since a factory complex, Rana Plaza, collapsed and killed more than 1,000 workers nearly three years ago. But there’s a lesser-known story...
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An obedient daughter? Pakistani author acts out frustrations in graphic novel.
Just looking at the cover of Ayesha Tariq’s graphic novel is quite revealing.On it is a glass bottle with a rubber stop and in it is the book’s congested title “Sarah: The Suppressed Anger of the...
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This former recruiter for an Islamic extremist group now helps fight extremism
Yasmin Mulbocus clutches her hijab as she sees images on TV of young women returning home from Syria.She hears them talk about how they escaped from the clutches of ISIS. Mulbocus sees herself in them...
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A feminist music festival in Chile wants to challenge Latin America's sexy,...
At this year's Viña del Mar festival, in Chile last month, the festival queen took a dive into a pool, covered only in rose petals, surrounded by fans and photographers.Singer Francisca Valenzuela...
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In the world's most dangerous nation for environmentalists, a leader is murdered
She loved the Gualcarque River and led a movement that stalled a hydroelectric dam on it in Honduras.On Thursday, Berta Cáceres, a 44-year-old mother of four and one of the Central American nation’s...
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Female game-changers in a field bent out of shape
The world's soccer body just held its presidential elections, but it’s a distant pipe dream that a new president will do much to fix what has bent the "beautiful game" so badly out of shape.One...
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The refugee crisis is turning more girls into child brides
The day before her wedding, Amira’s fiance took her aside in a quiet moment and told her he had loved her since he first saw her.“He said he would give me anything I wanted. He told me he would provide...
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