FEATURES//En Español
MANY VENEZUELAN WOMEN WHO FLEE CRISIS AT HOME TURN TO PROSTITUTION ABROAD
Venezuelas migrants Reina, Sofía y Karol are hoping to acquire legal status in Ecuador where prostitution is illegal. These are their stories.
In Conversation With
In Conversation With: Margaret Crane
Meet Margaret Crane: The “silent” revolutionary. She invented the first home pregnancy kit that allows women to quickly know whether they are pregnant or not and seek medical care or an abortion, sold the rights for $1 dollar and continued to work as a publicist.
SPOTLIGHTS
KEEPING GIRLS AT SCHOOL THANKS TO RE-USABLE PADS
In Malawi, a sanitary pad can determine if a girl stays in school, if a woman keeps her job or if she manages to grow enough food to feed herself and her family.
PODCAST
Meet The “FBI” Of the National Parks Lands
Beth Shott is an investigator with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB), a small contingent of agents responsible for protecting, investigating and prosecuting crimes that occur on national park land. They work all year around the clock, unless something unexpected happens, such as a government shutdown.
BLOG/YOUNG VOICES
THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN SUDAN
“There is a lot to be said about the International Women’s Rights Day incidents…They show how quickly things can go from support to aggression,” says Sudanese activist and Fulbright scholar Wala Ali Abdelbassit Zaid.
REVIEWS
SONITA: A GIRL’S FIGHT AGAINST A FORCED MARRIAGE
The story of an Afghan girl in Iran who fights against her own forced marriage