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#10-21 Wangari Maathai … on the origins of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, africa, agriculture, biodiversity, childhood, climate change, environment, first nations, food and nutrition, forestry, health, politics, pollution, regional, religion, science and technology, society and culture, spirituality, women

Long before she was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, biologist Dr. Wangari Maathai came to San Francisco to receive the

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#06-21 Local Futures … Local food sourcing saves people and climate

May 25, 2021June 1, 2021 helyah130276com31375 agriculture, climate change, environment, food and nutrition, health, politics, pollution, society and culture

World traffic in food by massive corporations harms environment, jobs, and health; yields no net change in food availability; and

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#05-21 Green Counter-Revolution … Local organic women farmers in India

May 18, 2021June 22, 2021 helyah130276com31375 education, environment, health, regional, science and technology, society and culture, south-Asia

The so-called Green Revolution in India increased one measure of “productivity” at the cost of much else, including nutrition, sustainability,

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#04-21 Female Circumcision in Sudan … FGM is illegal again, but not forgotten

May 11, 2021June 16, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, africa, childhood, health, medicine, politics, regional, science and technology, sexuality, society and culture, women

In 2020, Sudan’s transitional government outlawed female genital mutilation. Dr. Nahid Toubia thoroughly explained the practice, its health effects, its

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#01-21 Policing Police in Australia … For violence at home and within the force

April 20, 2021May 25, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, BIPOC, feminism, first nations, health, mental health, politics, racism, society and culture, women

Two interviews from Women on the Line converge on the problem of police sexist and racist misconduct and its toleration

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#51-20 India Farm Strike … Vandana Shiva connects the present to the past

April 7, 2021June 16, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, environment, food and nutrition, health, mental health, political parties, politics, religion, spirituality

India passed three new farm bills during the COVID lockdown last fall that gave rise to a sustained farmers’ strike

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#43-20 Resisting Rape in Cameroon … Speaking the truth is step one

February 9, 2021April 20, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, childhood, feminism, health, mental health, politics, religion, sexuality, society and culture, spirituality, women

Girls and women in Cameroon are being urged to speak the truth about rapes they have experienced, for their mental

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#38-20 Reporting in Kenya Under COVID … Problems and opportunities for women journalists

January 16, 2021April 13, 2021 helyah130276com31375 COVID-19, health, news, society and culture, women

The advent of COVID added new problems to an already increasingly precarious situation for journalists. More than 600 have been

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#37-20 Mothering Is a Gift … The act of mothering – by mother or another – shapes our brains and our nature

January 4, 2021March 17, 2021 helyah130276com31375 childhood, education, environment, health, science and technology, society and culture

Talk by Genevieve Vaughan, at the 2016 conference of the Mothering Institute for Research and Community Involvement in Toronto. Vaughan

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#36-20 COVID in Kenya … Its effects on women’s economic development

December 24, 2020March 9, 2021 helyah130276com31375 africa, childhood, COVID-19, education, feminism, health, health policy, politics, regional, society and culture, women

Measures taken by the Kenyan government to stop the spread of COVID include imposing a curfew, travel bans, and closing

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