Fighting period stigma, one cartoon at a time "It just makes you feel like it's a kind of punishment growing up." Taboos around menstruation remain strong in India. In some parts of the country,...
Ending period poverty At this year’s Academy Awards a film called “Period. End of Sentence” won the Oscar for best short documentary. The movie focused on the...
Arab women see changing rights climate [rebroadcast] 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...
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...
