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This Polish activist sent abortion pills to a woman in need. Now she's on trial.
Justyna Wydrzyńska said she knew that she was taking a big risk when she put a couple of abortion pills into an envelope and mailed them from her home in Przasnysz, Poland, to a woman in another part...
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South African floods: Protecting people must include a focus on women and girls
Listen to an interview on The World with author and researcher Fidelis Udo of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban by clicking the audio player below.Climate change is one of the main factors...
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For immigrants fleeing gender-based violence, it’s a long road to asylum in...
Deisy Ramírez woke before dawn on the day of her final asylum hearing last November. She was shaky with nerves, but she got up and made a cup of tea to calm herself. Her fate was in the hands of one of...
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Superhero Priya tries to rescue New Delhi from air pollution on Earth Day
When Ram Devineni decided to create India's first female comic superhero, he had plenty of inspiration.Indian mythology is full of gods and goddesses who come to the aid of mortals in trouble. The...
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Democracy, interrupted: Part I
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly foreign policy newsletter from Inkstick Media. Subscribe here.When the reactionary populist party Vox came to power in Andalucia in Spain, it did...
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India's abortion law still lacks a rights-based approach, gynecologist says
In India, abortion has been legal — within certain confines — for more than 50 years. India's abortion law is progressive, but it is also problematic, says Dr. Suchitra Dalvie, a practicing...
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Afghan women say Taliban's new rules aim to make them 'disappear from public...
A few days after the fall of Kabul, in Afghanistan, 18-year-old Aghela Amiri was randomly stopped by a Taliban fighter.He complained that her sleeves were too short and that her hair was showing —he...
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Democracy, interrupted: Part II
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly foreign policy newsletter from Inkstick Media. Subscribe here.To describe the geopolitics of the worst since 2015 is to tell a story of misogyny...
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Roe v. Wade highlights the important role of high courts in democratic societies
On May 2, shockwaves were sent across the United States when news broke of a leaked document saying the Supreme Court would overturn the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade.The leaked draft opinion...
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Northern Ireland decriminalized abortion 3 years ago. But services are still...
Eight years ago, Naomi Connor traveled from Ireland to England to access abortion services.“It probably cost around £1,100 ($1,400) because I had to fund the flights and the procedure. At least I had a...
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Colombia’s first all-female orchestra sets the stage for women to take the...
During a recent rehearsal at the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra’s headquarters, more than 40 musicians practiced a piece by Louise Farrenc, a 19th century female composer.Conductor Paola Avila, 29, who...
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'We are demanding full decriminalization': Sex workers in India rally for...
"Gangubai Kathiawadit," a blockbuster film in India out this year, features the harrowing life of a sex worker.Set in the 1950s and '60s in Mumbai (then called Bombay), the film’s protagonist is a...
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Poland’s ‘pregnancy registry’ will further restrict abortion access,...
When 27-year-old Klaudia Kuzdub discovered she was pregnant in March 2021, she said she couldn’t contemplate the idea of having a baby at the time.“I thought, ‘I am not ready. I don't want it.’ It...
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This filmmaker is trying to preserve an ancient Chinese language invented as...
Hundreds of years ago, Chinese women in the rural Hunan Province came up with Nüshu, a language that men could not understand. They needed a way to communicate with each other in a society that kept...
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These women are trying to preserve an ancient Chinese language invented as a...
Hundreds of years ago, Chinese women in the rural Hunan Province came up with Nüshu, a language that men could not understand. They needed a way to communicate with each other in a society that kept...
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Mexico's abortion laws have become more accessible
Mexico has slowly made reproductive health services more accessible over the last 20 years, largely because of changing political winds and women’s movements pushing for abortion access. The World’s...
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Kenya’s abortion debate
In Kenya, a recent court case has revived the abortion debate. Conflicting legislation has stirred confusion about what is and is not illegal. The World’s Halima Gikandi brings us more from Nairobi.
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‘They’re hurting themselves’: In Lebanon, women risk their lives to get an...
Malak el-Dirani, a midwife in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, said that she regularly sees patients who try to end their pregnancies on their own.They lift something heavy, fall down the stairs, hit themselves...
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Needle-spiking trend in Europe alarms nightclubbers — especially women
Romane Lafraise no longer likes to go out with friends after a celebratory night out at a dance club last month took a devastating turn. “I didn't drink alcohol,” the 17-year-old recalled of her night...
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The rise of Ultimate Frisbee as a team sport in China
On a sweltering summer night in Shanghai, a group of more than 50 people chased after flying plastic discs under the bright lights of a soccer pitch.Soccer may be China’s national sport, but enthusiasm...
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