#46-23 Structural Adjustment … an economic tool to exploit women
Structural Adjustment is the name of an economic regime imposed mainly on less developed countries that enforces drastic cuts to
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Society and culture
#44-23 Accented English … unfairly stigmatized
Why people whose first language is not English have different accents; how reactions to that affect immigrants’ lives. Speakers:Rosina Lippi-Green PhD
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#43-23 Global Homelessness … its causes
Human displacement and homelessness keep growing and growing. In a “parable” of uncertain attribution, there’s a community struggling to save
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#42-23 HIV-affected Children … and their mothers, on the Kenya coast
For 2024, UNAIDS has chosen the theme “Let Communities Lead.” In this program, you hear from children and their mothers
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#40-23 Superheroines and our Psyches … fictional figures mess with our minds
Lacanian psychoanalyst Hilda Fernandez talks with Frieda Werden about our relationships with superheroines and superheroes, and how those can play
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#38-23 Indian Boarding Schools … part of a pattern of violence in North America
US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, first Native American cabinet secretary, set in motion an investigation into the history
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#37-23 The Gift Economy … and the Peace Tent
Summary: From the WINGS archive, an interview with Genevieve Vaughan about the concepts elaborated in her first book, For-Giving: A Feminist
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#36-23 Memoirs of a Singing Birth … rights and competencies of birthing mothers and babies
Interview with Elena Skoko, activist for rights and dignity of mothers and babies in birth. She talks about birthing practices
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#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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#34-23 16 Days Is Not Enough … Canadians vs. violence against women
The international 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence began November 25 and ends on December 10. Canada also marks December 6
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