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Women’s Rights



Women’s rights are human rights. Legal and ethical rights should not be limited due to sex or gender, and women the world over fight for the right to live free from violence and discrimination, to have access to education, to own property, to work and earn an equal wage to men, to vote, to have access to health care, and to have control over our bodies and independent movement from place to place. Women and girls face gender-discriminatory treatment, policies, and cultural norms that routinely deny them of some or many of these rights. Increasing and protecting women’s rights has been shown to make the world a better place in economic, social, sustainability, and development arenas. The more equity we all have as global citizens, the more we can use our collective power and creativity to solve our problems.

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Nikki Giovanni Has Made Peace With Her Hate

“The door is open,” Nikki Giovanni told the interviewer, “and if I’m saying something that you don’t like, you can go out the door. Because I’m going to say what I think I should say.”

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Contemporary Woman Poets with Audre Lorde & Marge Piercy

This 1976 episode features a conversation with Audre Lorde and Marge Piercy. Lorde was an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.

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Under a Soprano Sky

Sanchez is one of the most under appreciated poets writing today. Her pristine lyricism combined with her strong voice and Black female themes make her special.

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The Stories of a Headscarf

Muslim women are needed as critical agents of change in this historical transformative moment in Islamic history and the Middle East. Yet it’s tough to be a Muslim woman these days. We’ve become symbols, not individuals.

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Brené with Melinda French Gates on The Moment of Lift

In this episode, I talk with philanthropist and global advocate for women and girls, Melinda French Gates. We talk about empathy, the power of story, and about her book, The Moment of Lift – a clear and powerful call to action for gender equity.

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Wadjda

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Survival in India

Shiva's powerful narratives allow us to hold a piece of food in our hands and, in a thought process we have never been taught to follow, lets us trace backwards the story of the land it was grown on, the cultural and economic toll on the ecosystem and people, the sacrifice endured so that it might...

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Vera Drake

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology

Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the south in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment, and the position of women in society coincide.

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He Named Me Malala

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

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