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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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San Marino votes to legalize abortion, ending a 150-year-old ban
The small republic of San Marino voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion in a historic referendum held on Sunday, putting an end to a 150-year-old law that made abortion a criminal offense punishable...
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US opens borders to fully vaccinated travelers from a list of countries
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.United StatesStarting today, country-specific travel bans to the United States, prompted 20 months ago by...
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This UK activist is pushing to end single-use plastics in menstrual products
After UK environmental activist Ella Daish kept finding plastic tampon applicators discarded on the beach, she got the idea to incorporate them into a piece of art: a giant tampon that she would use in...
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What the Peng Shuai saga tells us about Beijing’s grip on power and desire to...
Check out The World's story on the subject including an interview with this article's co-author, Yan Bennett, by clicking the audio player below.Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s apparent disappearance...
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Montréal Massacre anniversary: The media must play a key role in fighting...
On Dec. 6, 1989, an act of violent misogyny killed 14 young women at École Polytechnique at Université of Montréal.This mass femicide, though carried out by a lone male, grew out of a societal...
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Discussion: The pandemic, women's health and pregnancy
Women around the world have faced big challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic, whether it be health precautions around pregnancy or having to take on stressful roles within their families and...
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Coronavirus Conversations: The pandemic, women's health and pregnancy
Women make up the majority of healthcare workers around the world who have had to deal with the rising number COVID-19 cases. Women also face a unique set of challenges in terms of societal...
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Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai's retraction 'comes off as highly staged,'...
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has denied saying she was sexually assaulted by a former top Communist Party official, backpeddling from her previous allegations in a November social media post.Related:...
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Feminist tango collectives take center stage in Argentina
Patricia Malanca always dreamed of writing a tango album full of feminist songs — a rarity in the tango world.“My intention is to have my songs heard in places where the traditional sexist tango...
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Catalonia pardons women accused of witchcraft 400 years ago
About 400 hundred years ago, in the small Catalan village of Viladrau, 14 women were accused of witchcraft, tortured and hanged. At the time — between 1618 and 1622 — there were fewer than 100...
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For sexual assault victims in Ghana, justice is expensive — and elusive
In a clay room with a thatched roof, Georgina, 16, sits with her chin buried in her palm, thinking about what happened to her nearly two years ago. During Ghana’s COVID-19 lockdown, Georgina said she...
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The fighting in northern Ethiopia cooled down months ago. But many survivors...
On the grounds of Woldiya University in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, hundreds of women — young and old — sit outside eating and chatting during a lunch break.They are survivors of mass...
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India’s Warrior Moms tackle indoor air pollution — ‘the silent killer’
Educator Anuja Bali is on a mission to teach women in India about the dangers of indoor air pollution — what she calls a “silent killer.” In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, Bali co-founded a group...
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A newborn arrives amid chaos in Kyiv
Kyiv resident Maia Mikhaluk hoped that her first grandchild would be born “under the peaceful, free sky of an independent Ukraine.”Instead, her daughter, Sasha, gave birth last week amid aerial...
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Ukraine’s women fighters reflect a cultural tradition of feminist independence
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have taken up arms during the war sparked by Russia’s invasion. According to media reports, women constitute as much as 15% to 17% of the Ukrainian fighting...
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