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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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#07-21 Madan Saras of Haiti … Brave Market Women and Their Community

June 1, 2021June 8, 2021 helyah130276com31375 childhood, education, political parties, politics, regional, society and culture, women

Inspired by the 2021 film Madan Sara, produced in Haitian Creole and directed by Etant Dupain. Includes sound from the

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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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#02-21 Maternal Gift Stories … on Mothering, Activism, and Care

April 29, 2021June 1, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, africa, arts and culture, childhood, feminism, first nations, politics, society and culture, united states, women

On April 24th, 2021, two well known activists came together online to tell stories from their lives about the gift

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#52-20 Vote Suppression … Texas style

April 13, 2021June 22, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, childhood, elections, feminism, political parties, politics, racism, regional, society and culture, united states, women

While US House Bill 1 “For the People” languishes in the Senate, 47 out of 50 state legislatures have considered

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#49-20 Nisei and Sansei Women Look Back and Ahead … Survivors of Japanese incarceration during WWII

March 24, 2021June 1, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, arts and culture, Canada, childhood, feminism, politics, racism, radio arts, society and culture, united states, women

. Voices of Japanese American women elders are heard mainly inside their own communities and families. They hold the memories

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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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#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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#34-20 UN Women Marks the 16 Days against Gender Violence … with a call to stop rape and an inter-generational feminist discussion

December 19, 2020February 23, 2021 helyah130276com31375 activism, africa, asia, childhood, education, europe, feminism, politics, racism, regional, society and culture, women

On the International Day Against Violence Against Women (Nov. 25), UN Women’s Executive Director delivered a scathing address about her

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