A delivery room epiphany transformed a village headman into an unlikely and highly successful campaigner against prenatal sex testing, which often led to aborting female fetuses.
Tag: Women and Girls
Young Catholics Come Together, if Not Their Views
As young Catholics gathered from around the world in Portugal, their desires for the future of the church were as varied as the countries they came from.
Kerala Lottery: India Sanitation Workers Win $1.2 Million Lottery
The winners, who are sanitation co-workers in India, each make just a few dollars a day. The jackpot will help them pay off crippling debts.
Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too
Anthropologists are finding that women in modern foraging societies have played a major role in catching game.
Taliban Shut Afghanistan Beauty Salons, Rare Women’s Public Spaces
Following through on an order that prompted rare protests in the capital, the Taliban said the services of the women-only businesses violated Shariah law.
Iranian Mothers Choose Exile for Sake of Their Daughters
Some have risked their lives to escape to Iraq or other nearby countries, where they have found havens to start over.
Iranian Mothers Choose Exile for Sake of Their Daughters
Some have risked their lives to escape to Iraq or other nearby countries, where they have found havens to start over.
Racism and Sexism Underlie Higher Maternal Death Rates for Black Women, U.N. Says
Black women in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States are more likely than their white counterparts to report denial of medication or physical and verbal abuse in health care settings.
Rikkie Valerie Kollé Is the First Trans Woman to Win Miss Netherlands
Rikkie Valerie Kollé, 22, will represent the Netherlands at the 72nd annual Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador later this year.
Overlooked No More: Hannie Schaft, Resistance Fighter During World War II
She killed Nazis in the Netherlands and was known as “the girl with the red hair” on their most-wanted list. Then she was executed.