Press freedom in Macedonia and Mexico On this edition, part two of our look at press freedom and how journalists do their jobs in countries where just reporting the news can be a big...
Arab women’s rights In late June, the first Saudi women to legally drive a car in the kingdom started their engines and took off down the road. The lifting of Saudi...
Press freedom in India and Jordan On today’s program, the first of a two-part series discussing press freedom and how journalists operate in different parts of the world. To...
Ethiopia’s new hope The East African nation of Ethiopia has spent much of the last three decades as an authoritarian one-party state. Political opponents of the...
India’s girl shortage [rebroadcast] In the next decade, India may pass China to become the world’s most populous country. But there’s something odd about India’s population....
Insurgents, poor schools plague northern Nigeria Back in 2014 there was an enormous international outcry after Islamic militants from the group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 female high school students...
South Sudan’s standoff When South Sudan became a country in 2011, there was a lot of optimism in a nation where people had endured decades of conflict to win independence...
Internet addiction in China [rebroadcast] It’s hardly uncommon for parents to be worried their teenagers are spending too much time online. But in China the concern is particularly acute,...
‘Combat Obscura’ gives unfiltered view of Afghan war The war in Afghanistan is America's longest-running conflict in its history. This October will mark 17 years of U.S. combat troops in the country,...
Climate change in South Asia Climate change is already having big effects on southern Asia. Deadly heat waves like one that killed 3,500 people in India and Pakistan in 2015...
