#35-23 Benazir Bhutto … First woman to lead a Muslim-majority country
On December 27, 2007, the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority country, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated while campaigning for a
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Elections
#12-22 Kenya Politics and Women … on the eve of new national elections
Zuleikha Hassan is one of the most outspoken members of Kenya’s Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political
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#50-21Good Parliaments … Gender sensitization in action
A deep look at a longterm process to make the world’s parliaments and legislatures gender equitable, gender sensitive, and diverse.
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#37-21 Nonviolent Power … Why Civil Resistance Works
Erica Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Chenoweth and Maria Stephan researched
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#52-20 Vote Suppression … Texas style
While US House Bill 1 “For the People” languishes in the Senate, 47 out of 50 state legislatures have considered
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#45-20 Lulu B. White of the NAACP … Pivotal organizer for Black voting rights in America
Dr. Merline Pitre delivered this talk February 17, 1990, in Dallas, Texas, during the first annual conference on African American
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#32-20 Waring’s Counting … New Zealand’s first woman in Parliament debunked the GDP
In the film Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Economics, Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining
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#29-20 Women of India’s Panchayats … 50% of local government seats are now for women
In August 2020, the world lost broadcaster and author Indu Ramesh to the Covid pandemic. Among her achievements were many
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#22-20 Attacks on Gender Studies … An international conversation
In many parts of the world, governments and other actors are attempting to limit or banish Gender Studies and the
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#12-20 Slovenia Uprising … Rejecting the Right
Slovenia is a social democracy that was the first to secede from the Yugoslav Federation. It has relatively good conditions
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