The places where Martin Luther King Jr. grew up are now a National Historical Park
Martin Luther King’s childhood home and the surrounding area have become a National Historical Park. We went to Atlanta to visit it.
Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes, an ode to those fighting against sexual violence
All eyes were on Oprah Winfrey at this year’s Golden Globe Awards. Her speech made waves by highlighting the struggle of too many women against a violent, male-dominated culture. The video and transcript in full.
#MeToo campaign’s silence breakers, who spoke out against sexual violence, are Time Person of the Year 2017
The Time Person of the Year 2017 title goes to the online #MeToo movement that has encouraged millions to share their stories of sexual violence. The magazine highlights the stories of exceptional “silence breakers”.
South Sudan, these photos capture the strength of women refugees
Nonostante fame, povertà e violenza le donne del Sud Sudan portano avanti la propria vita con dignità. Only a woman è il reportage che mostra tutta la loro forza.
The global gender gap, the 2017 report shows that disparity has increased for the first time in a decade
The global gender gap or index has widened, the 2017 World Economic Forum report shows. In view of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we analyse how these phenomena are sadly related.
India has ruled that sex with an underage bride is rape
India’s Supreme Court has ruled against sex with an underage bride, establishing that sexual intercourse within a marriage where the spouse is younger than 18 constitutes rape. According to Indian law, the minimum age for consensual sex in India is 18. However, until the ruling was made on the 11th of October – coinciding with the International Day of the
Teixchel, indigenous women in Guatemala weave to fight exclusion
The challenges that indigenous Maya women currently face in Guatemala are complex and numerous but if we had to sum them up in one word, it would be exclusion. This according to Rosalia, a 33-year old associate artisan at Teixchel, a sustainable weaving association in San Pedro La Laguna, on the shore of Lake Atitlán, that uses exclusively nontoxic eco and
Venezuelan constitutional crisis, chief prosecutor dismissed and rebels attack army base
On the 30th of July the Venezuelan government led by socialist President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the results of contentious elections to form a new governing body called the Constituent Assembly with the mandate to replace the 1999 Constitution. The recently created institution removed Luisa Ortega, the country’s chief prosecutor and a critic of the Maduro regime, from
Saving Lives at Birth, innovative ideas to fight mortality meet in a global contest
53 promising ideas to defeat mortality were shared in the final stage of the this year’s Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge. All finalists met in Washington, DC between the 25th and 27th of July, learned from each other, interacted with potential collaborators, and participated in a number of discussion groups and one-on-one meetings. Engineers and entrepreneurs, scientists and students gathered for
Guatemala, Maya women fight to defend indigenous textiles from the fashion industry
An organisation that unites over 1,000 mainly Maya women in Guatemala has expressed alarm that indigenous handicrafts, textiles called “huipiles” in particular, are under threat because underpriced industrial fabrics appropriating indigenous patterns have flooded the Guatemalan market, depriving many native women of their main source of income. Read more: Down to Xjabelle, the fashion collection by a young designer with Down