women’s rights

Mara Hvistendahl

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My guest today is Mara Hvistendahl, author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.read more

"We are the Leaders We've Been Looking For" - Grace Lee Boggs »

To close out Women's History Month (and in honor of the radical origins of International Women's Day), we are spotlighting legendary Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs. Though not a poet in the traditional sense, Grace is a powerful writer and speaker whose work is grounded in the transformations of ideas and actions that the best poems are made of.read more

Solving the global food crisis starts with women’s rights »

By Yifat Susskind, June 3, 2008

Solving the food crisis means empowering women.

This week, world leaders are meeting in Rome to devise new strategies for world agriculture. They ought to be promoting women’s rights.read more

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February 2012

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