Child marriage in Southeast Asia In late October, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad issued a directive to state officials: raise the minimum age for marriage to eighteen...
Gender quotas on the march Christine Blasey Ford was 100 percent certain Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school. Kavanaugh was 100 percent certain he...
Halting India’s witch hunts [rebroadcast] For many, witch trials may seem like a relic of early colonial America. But in fact witch-hunting is still a feature of rural life today in many...
‘One-child’ policy leaves China graying [rebroadcast] A little less than four decades ago China’s population was nearing the 1 billion mark. In 1979 this led the Communist Party to institute the...
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...
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...
India’s witch hunts For many, witch trials may seem like a relic of early colonial America. But in fact witch-hunting is still a feature of rural life today in many some...
Japan’s #MeToo movement faces culture of silence The #MeToo movement has spread from the United States to other parts of the world as women have increasingly spoken out about sexual assault and...
In anonymity, Japan’s ‘Tomorrow Girls’ seek equality "We have constant backlash from the public, so a lot of our members don’t want to reveal their names." Japan may be known for its bullet trains,...
