#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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#30-20 India’s Water Warrior Women … Essential approaches to fast-encroaching drought
In India, water is a women’s issue and a woman’s burden, but only concerted community action can ensure water for
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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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#25-20 Street Children in Kenya … A woman’s commitment to help
Unicef estimates there are 30 million street children in Africa. In Kenya, they are concentrated in highly populated urban slums.
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#23-20 20th Century Plagues … Controlling epidemics is a tricky business
From the WINGS archive: Laurie Garrett, speaking in San Francisco in 1995, about epidemics emerging around the world, with a
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#16-20 After Incest … The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Excerpts from the film The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse highlight the long process of recovering from
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#15-20 Casa Internazionale delle Donne … The International Women’s House in Rome
The Casa Internazionale delle Donne – the International Women’s House – is a former convent in Rome that was occupied
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#13-20 Guardians of the Amazon … Indigenous Women Rising
It was 1920 when the first international oil corporation entered the Amazon region. The struggle against destructive extractive industries has been
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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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#11-20 Wife Beaters … A tough problem to beat
From the WINGS archive, two leaders in the movement to stop domestic violence, share their experience and ideas on topics
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