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Rural women in remote areas are often left out of family planning programs aimed at large population centers. Some biodiversity wildlife programs are showing how to step into the breach.
Eliza Griswold’s “The Tenth Parallel” began as a probe of religious fundamentalism’s link to violence. After traveling through Africa and Southeast Asia, she just wanted to tell the stories she found along the way.
Delphine Minoui’s book, now out in English, puts the reader in the shoes of a Yemeni girl married at age 10. When the girl divorced her husband, she spotlighted the sufferings of child brides. Book royalties now support the ex-bride and her parents.
Amnesty International parted ways with Gita Sahgal, its leading gender researcher, on April 9. In February, Saghal began pushing Amnesty to explain its embrace of a former Guantanamo detainee she calls a Taliban supporter.
Population control policies have been linked to the subordination of women’s rights through coercive abortions and sterilizations. But in the age of C02 anxiety, a wary discourse is growing about the importance of reproductive rights to climate.
Photographer Mimi Chakarova spent seven years delving into the world of sex trafficking in Eastern Europe, even going undercover to document the situation. The result is an intimate multimedia portrait of these women’s lives.
Before Lebanon’s June 7 election, politicians raised hopes that a law barring women from passing citizenship to their children would be overturned. Now a leading advocate feels betrayed.
Journalist Ayse Onal’s coverage of the Turkish men who murdered their sisters and mothers in “honor” killings finds they often feel betrayed by their families. Many killers also want to guide other men away from such crimes. The second of two parts.
Journalist Ayse Onal’s work, which got her blacklisted, has ranged from Kurdish separatism to Turkish Hizballah. Her recent book and documentary about “honor” killings taps into regrets of men who carry out these killings. Part one of two.
England’s conviction rates for rapists have dropped to less than 6 percent from 30 percent three decades ago. Anti-violence activists mounted a pressure campaign against officials, even staging a mock trial to charge them with neglect.