#31-21 Food Beneath Their Feet … Africa’s Indigenous Food Revival
A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow
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#30-21 Rape and Resistance in Bangladesh … Lessons learned from Canada
In 2020, massive public demonstrations led the government of Bangladesh to raise the maximum penalty for rape; but these university
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#29-21 Wildlife Women in Kenya … Breaking cultural barriers to protect animals and people
Team Lioness are 16 women wildlife rangers who manage the interface between humans and wildlife around Amboseli National Park. Also
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#28-21 Witch Accusations … A continuing scourge
Witchcraft Accusations, Violence and Torture of Women and Children was a parallel event at the 2015 UN Commission on the
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#27-21 Feminist Foreign Policy … What it is and what it could be
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been lauded for her efforts at feminist foreign policy, but not until 2014
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#25-21 Technology on the Frontlines … Women’s work disrupted by design
Most frontline workers in hospitals are women; most technology designers are men. The women’s expertise and tacit knowledge is often
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#23- and 24-21 Women’s Agenda to Save the Planet -Parts 1 and 2
30 years ago in Miami, 1500 women from 80 countries came together. They held a tribunal and a think tank
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#21-21 Female Priests in India … Liberate Hindu weddings
India’s new female priestesses are solemnizing weddings, breaking barriers and stereotypes in the formerly patriarchal sphere. Priestess weddings simplify and
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#20-21 Model Marriages … Legacies from folk tales
Lenora Ucko spoke about her book Endangered Spouses: The Legacy of Marital Inequality, which compares folk tale models of power
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#19-21 When Abortion Was Illegal … (and may soon be again in the USA)
Adapted from the documentary film When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories. Updated to August 22, 2021. Featured: Dorothy Fadiman (narrator and
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