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Mexican women lead initiatives to rescue native tongues
When Gabriela Badillo traveled to Mérida, Yucatán, more than a decade ago, she encountered children who were timid about speaking the Mayan language. As she later came to understand, fear and...
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There's a new Ebola vaccine — but the fight is far from over
At first, Walter Odong thought his neighbors were being poisoned.Odong lives in the northern Ugandan city of Gulu, in a busy neighborhood where stray dogs and roosters stroll through a labyrinth of mud...
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Russia's women protesters face rough treatment at hands of police
Yulia Galiamina, a well-respected Russian opposition leader, has been recovering from a concussion at the neurosurgical department of Botkin Hospital, where an ambulance brought her after an opposition...
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A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico
You’ve heard about unaccompanied minors from Central America coming to the US. But many more of those youths fleeing violence and poverty stop short of our border, staying in Mexico. There, many lack...
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Your week in women's news: ISIS, healthcare and Nabra Hassenen's murder
Hi, and welcome to my weekly column for Across Women's Lives at PRI's The World. Sign up here to get this in your weekly inbox. As I write, ISIS is losing major ground in northern Iraq, and on the...
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Turkish female cartoonists get political — tackling oppression with humor
Ezgi Aksoy can’t remember when she first knew she wanted to be a writer for Leman, one of Turkey’s most popular satire magazines. But that feeling, she says, grew throughout her high school years.“I...
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Afghanistan's all-girl robotics team can't get visas to come to the US
A group of teenage girls from Afghanistan who had planned to come to Washington, DC, for an international robotics competition won't be coming after all, after the US State Department denied their...
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Where were the women? In Trump's foreign policy, female leaders are scarce
What a manly week it’s been!Let’s start with aggressive moves by male-dominated, highly militarized North Korea to test its capacity for a nuclear strike. This is a regime that Human Rights Watch...
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In London, advocates tout the importance of access to contraceptives
With human population growth increasing, world leaders at the Family Planning Summit 2020 in London pledged an additional $2.5 billion toward expanding access to contraception and family planning over...
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A world without men? When men go abroad to work, women in Nepal take the lead...
Night has fallen inky black and cold over Amar Basti village, but Kalpana Thapa and her neighbors are loath to drift off to bed. They punch at their phones, pull shawls tighter and coo at the children...
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Nigerian girls often still drop out of school to work, despite the country's...
When their mother was well and in their home in Lagos, Nigeria, 15-year old twins Kehinde and Taiwo Oni thought that they, like their mom, would finish secondary school.But when she had to return to...
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Remembering AIDS activist Prudence Mabele
“She represented the best of us.”That’s how Ambassador Deborah Birx, US global AIDS coordinator and head of President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), remembers South African activist...
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Meet the woman who may be Somalia’s only female auto mechanic
Nasra Hussain Ibrahim was 11 when she realized she’d have to do something drastic if her family was to survive. They lived in Hiiraan, a rough region in south-central Somalia where al-Shabaab, a...
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The end of FARC's 50-year pregnancy ban leads to a baby boom
The week after she handed in her AK-47 rifle, Patricia found out she was pregnant.Patricia had been a rebel fighter in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for 14 years. Last month, she...
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Women and girls are a new frontier in the fight against HIV
At the ninth annual conference on HIV science, happening in Paris right now, there's a lot to celebrate.AIDS used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide — no more. A report by the Joint...
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This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.
A half-hour outside of Washington, DC, there's a six-bedroom townhouse with a white portico. It was the house of Jane Kambalame, a diplomat in the United States from Malawi. Her job was to advocate for...
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For the first time in its history, Brazil's top literary festival showcases...
When Giovana Xavier looked at the lineup of writers who would attend FLIP 2016, the International Literary Festival of Paraty, she held her breath. Not one black woman author was invited.“I felt...
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A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women...
In a cramped Harvard University sub-basement, a team of women is working to document the rich history of their predecessors.More than 40 years before women gained the right to vote, women labored in...
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She missed five years of school because of the Syrian war. She won’t let that...
Loury Rasheed is just 17 years old, but she looks and sounds older than her age. That might have to do with the fact that Loury has been working instead of going to school for nearly five years. Her...
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Across Women's Lives is hitting the road, and we need your help
Our Across Women’s Lives team is about to hit the road again. This time, AWL is heading out to cover the lives of adolescent girls who have been diagnosed with HIV.But before we go, we want to ask you...
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