#35-25 Women’s Equality in Islam – Speech by Islamic theologian Riffat Hassan
Riffat Hassan (born 1943) is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur’an. In this speech recorded
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Politics
#34-25 16 Days against gender-based violence in Kenya
Since 1991, thousands of women’s organizations around the world have marked 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women (aka
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#31-25 Environment Stories – about activism around the world
Featured speaker: Shilpi Chhotray, President and Co-founder of Counterstream Media, and producer of the new podcast Counterstream for The Nation.
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#29-25 Iceland Women’s Strike – 50 years of progress
Description: Fifty years ago, on October 24, 1995, 90% of the women in Iceland (and on board a ship) stopped work for a
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#28-25 Ovalizing Power: Lani Guinier on who makes the rules
Lani Guinier (1950-2022) was one of the most prolific and sought-after legal scholars in the United States, and became the first black
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#27-25 Women in Prison learn to defend their cases fairly in court
Anybody getting arrested will be stressed – even more so if she’s the mother of a child under 4 years
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#26-25 Conflict Is Not Abuse … Mistaking discomfort for violence is an error of our times
Prominent Lesbian activist, novelist and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman speaks in Vancouver BC Canada about her book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility,
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#24-25 Beijing+5 – Review of the accord reveals discord
The third and final episode of our retrospective on the UN 4th World Conference on Women covers the 5-year review
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#22-25 4th World Conference on Women, Huairou, China, 1995 (30th Anniversary edition)
Community radio producers defied China’s ban on reporters at the massive non-governmental portion of the UN’s 4th (and so far the final) World
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#21-25 The Arms Scam – The bloated industry that ate the US budget
Featured Speakers: Member of Congress from Michigan, Lynn Rivers (now a lecturer in politics at Michigan State University); Georgia State Representative (now
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