#49-19 Right to Water … The UN Declaration on this Human Right, and how it is used
On 28 July 2010 the United Nations General Assembly declared safe and clean drinking water and sanitation a human right.
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
politics
#48-19 Election Protection … or, How To Hack a Democracy
Unlike Canada, which has paper ballots counted in the presence of scrutineers, the United States has fallen prey to the
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#47-19 The Rapist In Your Path
“The patriarchy is a judge, that judges us for being born, and our punishment, is the violence you don’t see.
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#46-19 Matilda Joslyn Gage, Renegade Suffragist
Historian Sally Roesch Wagner discusses her favourite US suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage modeled her feminism on the practices of
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#44-19 NGOs Lobby UN Commission on the Status of Women
In 2019, the UN Commission on the Status of Women took up the issue of Social Protection. The day before
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#43-19 Fasia – Afro-German survivor sang for peace
Her mother was German, her father a Liberian diplomat. When the Nazis came to power, young Fasia Jansen was sent
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#42-19 Winnie Mandela at Million Woman March
On October 25, 1997, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela addressed the first Million Woman March, held in Philadelphia. After an introduction summarizing the
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#40-19 Child Sex Work in Kenya … Girls below age of consent trade sex to feed their families
At Gasi Bay, Kenya, poverty exacerbated by drought is leaving foreign fishermen and local motorcycle transport drivers as the richest
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#39-19 Beyond the Sex Wars … Can a rift in the women’s movement be healed?
Speaking in a plenary at the US National Women’s Studies Association, Chapkis explores the ideological gulf between pro-prostitution and abolitionist
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#37-19 How 2nd Wave Broke … Sheila Tobias on Faces of Feminism
Sheila Tobias gives highlights from her book Faces of Feminism: An Activist’s Reflections on the Women’s Movement. She recalls a
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