Global women’s rights activists react to Trump
NAIROBI — You’ll forgive the global women’s rights movement while it catches its breath. “I’m shellshocked. I have no words. I don’t even know…
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Good News & Bad News for Global Women’s Health Under Trump
First, the bad news. “Mr. Trump does not have a track record on health and reproductive rights so there’s not a lot we know…
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What it means when ‘we are together’
For so long, everywhere I’ve been, everywhere I’ve worked, people admired American ideals. They believed in them, and in us — which we didn’t deserve even before, given all the horror we’ve let loose on the world — and they thought our ideals were something they could have a piece of, too.
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Calling Female Filmmakers
I’ve gotten several notices in the last several days about money for female filmmakers. Here’s what I’ve heard — add anything you know about…
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How NASA satellites save Kenya’s nomads from bankruptcy during drought (seriously)
by Jina Moore, for Pacific Standard, Winter 2012 (no longer available online) Brenda Wandera’s iPhone buzzes in her lap. A text message has made its…
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Turns out, FGM is for men
Recently, I went to Galkayo, Somalia, with the inimitable Idil Abshir, also a Nairobi-based journalist, to meet two people who are trying to end…
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Praise posts
My notebooks from Europe are full of gratitude. That’s a strange thing to say, maybe, about the work behind two rather depressing stories, one about…
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From the Department of Gentle Suggestions
Apparently all of us have had a lot to say since Paris. I’ve not had so much to say, until a couple days ago,…
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If your husband beats you and you’re a refugee… good luck
Germany’s system is failing to protect female refugees from violence.
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Women Refugees in Europe Are Told Rape “Is Definitely Not the Problem”
I thought this story was going to be straightforward: The United Nations and the big crisis response groups have been talking forever — even…
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