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Move over soccer: Brazil’s award-winning volleyball teams compete for Olympic...
Brazil has been holding its own during the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. They’ve won 16 medals so far: in surfing, skateboarding, judo and swimming.Gymnast Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian female...
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Protesters in India call for justice for Dalit women who are victims of...
Villagers in India’s capital of Delhi held protests this week calling for justice for another rape case. It’s revived outrage over the number of gruesome sexual crimes against women in the country.The...
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Turkey’s modest fashion market hits its stride
As fashion designer Ayşe Yıldırım bustles around her shop in Istanbul, she slides past bold, colorful tops; long, shimmery party dresses and a sleek white pantsuit. Each design features collars that...
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Taliban announce 'amnesty,' urge women to join government
The Taliban on Tuesday declared an "amnesty" across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government.Following a blitz across Afghanistan that saw many cities fall to the insurgents without a...
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A race to evacuate as Taliban asserts authority over Afghanistan
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.AfghanistanTwo days after sweeping into power, the Taliban has declared general amnesty for Afghan government...
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Afghanistan is under Taliban control. Women are worried about what it means...
The Taliban arrived in 24-year-old Ghazal’s neighborhood last week, showing up on motorbikes, in cars and on foot.Ghazal, who, like many Afghans, goes only by one name, didn’t want to say where she...
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'If journalists leave a scene, it becomes a black hole,' VOA journalist in...
Protesters took to the streets in Afghanistan for the second straight day to rally against Taliban rule. Today, protests reached the capital, Kabul. As many as 200 people gathered before armed Taliban...
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Checking in on the pandemic: Part I
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly foreign policy newsletter from Inkstick Media. Subscribe here.The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic produced a flurry of social science research,...
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'We are so afraid': An Afghan women's rights activist is left behind in...
“We regret to inform you that international military evacuations from Kabul airport have ended.” That’s the grim message many Afghans received via text from US officials this weekend.The news was a gut...
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Undocumented women face shrinking options for reproductive health care under...
The new Texas law known as SB8 bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The law will have far-reaching impacts for many communities. For undocumented women in Texas seeking abortions, their...
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Taliban names all-male 33-member interim government in Afghanistan
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.AfghanistanThe Taliban has announced a 33-member interim government for Afghanistan, weeks after taking...
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Pregnant women and children with HIV in Ghana struggle to access lifesaving...
Editor’s note: This story was supported by the National Geographic Society's COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists.Leticia Asiamah, who lives in a single-room wooden shack in Ghana’s capital, Accra,...
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Afghan women to the Taliban: #DoNotTouchMyClothes
Images from Kabul this weekend showed women in black marching in pro-Taliban demonstrations. The women wore long, dark outfits, and their faces were nearly fully veiled.Recently, the Taliban issued a...
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'It is a catastrophe': Afghans are in desperate need of food, humanitarian...
A month after the fall of Kabul, the world is still wrestling with how to help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban leaders — a question that grows more urgent by the...
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Afghan women sidelined under new Taliban rule: ‘This country places no value...
Sixteen-year-old Morsal was asleep when the news broke last Friday.When she woke up, she said, her younger sister rushed to tell her: “Have you heard? Schools are open again.”Related: The Taliban want...
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UNGA 76th session convenes in New York
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.UNGAThe 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly has kicked off at the UN headquarters in New...
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Myanmar declares martial law on deadly day
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.The violence in Myanmar continues to draw widespread criticism as the South Asian country marked its...
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Putting China’s domestic violence law into practice is an uphill battle
This month marks the fifth anniversary of China’s landmark national domestic violence law. Advocates say that making it actually work for survivors of domestic abuse is an uphill battle. Related:...
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The woman who shot Benito Mussolini was forgotten for decades. Ireland wants...
Violet Gibson — a 50-year-old Irishwoman, 5-foot-1 with long, graying hair — was an unlikely assassin. On the day she shot Benito Mussolini, April 7, 1926, the Italian dictator had just spoken at an...
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Atlanta shootings come in wake of rise in anti-Asian hate crimes
Shootings at three Atlanta-area spas last night left 8 people dead; six of the victims were Asian women. Police believe all shootings were committed by the same person who is in custody.The attacks...
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