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Across Women's Lives

Newsworthy stories and engagement opportunities focused on the issues facing women and girls around the world. More information is found here.
Doctors for Choice in Malta gather to advocate for a bill to decriminalize abortion in Malta.
Reproductive rights
Abortion is illegal in Malta. Activists are trying to increase access.
The Iron Dames line up in front of their race cars on the race track.
Sports
Iron Dames: The all-female team racing to bring change to motor sports
People walk along a downtown street in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, March 16, 2020. Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives, abortion services and related care because of the coronavirus pandemic.
How women and girls are especially at risk of hunger during the pandemic 
Sevilay, a mother of two in Istanbul, got permission from her husband to have an abortion as required by law. But she had trouble finding a public hospital that would do it, and even some of her friends criticize her for her decision.
Reproductive rights
Abortion increasingly hard to access in Turkey
Delegates attend talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 12, 2020.
Women & Gender
Afghan women negotiating with the Taliban say they feel ‘heavy responsibility’
the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wears a bright red suit jacket
Women & Gender
RBG’s early days in Sweden shaped her fight for women’s equality
In this file photo, a mural depicting messages against sexual harassment and reading "safe cities" in Arabic script is seen on a highway in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 3, 2018.
Gender
Social media censorship in Egypt targets women on TikTok
A snowboarder heads back to the lodge at Squaw Valley in Olympic Valley, California, Dec. 5, 2015. Last month, the resort announced plans to change its name in the coming year.
A racial slur remains in hundreds of place names throughout North America
A crowd carries two caskets.
Women & Gender
Latin American women are disappearing and dying under lockdown
A demonstrator holds a sign as people gather outside the European Union institutions to rally in solidarity with Poland's LGBT community, in Brussels, Aug. 19, 2020.
LGBTQ
Polish activists fight against anti-LGBT movement
Business, Economics and Jobs
COVID-19’s cost to working mothers
A woman holds a banner that reads "Free abortion covered by social security" during a pro-choice march to celebrate the government ending its plan to reform Spain's abortion law in Madrid September 28, 2014. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Tuesday
Reproductive rights
Abortion is a protected right in Spain. But the govt blocked a website that provides abortion info and pills. 
Internally displaced girls in Somalia queue before at a school beside an IDP camp in Dollow, Somalia, April 4, 2017.
COVID-19
Despite recent historic gains in ending FGM, Somalia sees dramatic increase
An action shot of a woman playing soccer
Sports
Women’s pro soccer made gains toward parity. Will coronavirus undo it?
A woman and a man sit in chairs in front of the New Zealand and Australian flags
Leaders
Women leaders eschew ‘macho-man’ politics in COVID-19 response
A woman speaks behind a table
COVID-19
Ugandan archbishop breaks with tradition to promote birth control during pandemic
Kirsty Duncan and her husband, Adam, on their wedding day.
COVID-19
COVID-19 interrupts fertility plans for hopeful couples in the United Kingdom
A woman walks inside a medical center that deals with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing in Idlib, Syria, April 13, 2020.
COVID-19
ISIS families held in Syrian camps face uncertain futures. Now, the coronavirus also looms.
Rohingya refugees walk along the road in the evening at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Nov. 16, 2018. 
COVID-19
Rohingya women are traditionally kept out of leadership roles. Will the coronavirus change that? 
A Buddhist nun sits in front of the Taj Mahal
Belief
Buddhist nun recommends calming the mind to cope with pandemic
two women pose for a photo with a dog in the snow.
Polar
Tips to survive self-isolation from citizen scientists on a remote Norwegian island
Women wearing protective masks travel in a metro train during a partial lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia, on April 2, 2020.
COVID-19
How groups are helping domestic violence survivors during coronavirus lockdowns
A woman holds a pink cross during a protest to mark International Women's Day at Zocalo square in Mexico City, Mexico, March 8, 2020.
Women in Mexico take to the streets to protest femicide
Indyra Mendoza is shown wearing a dark shirt and standing in front of a projector showing a news clipping.
LGBTQ
This activist group is taking on the state of Honduras in the first trans femicide court case
Demonstrators and activists take part in a rally in support of legal and safe abortion outside the Colombian constitutional court, in Bogota, Colombia, March 2, 2020.
Two key decisions on abortion in Colombia and Argentina this month
Volunteers from the conservative group 40 Days for Life pray outside an abortion clinic in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020.
Reproductive rights
US conservative groups ramp up influence in Colombia amid abortion debate
People gather in a memory of seven-year-old Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett, who went missing and whose body was discovered inside a plastic bag, at an anti-femicide monument, in Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 19, 2020.
Thousands join march to fight against femicide in Mexico
A woman with braids in a pink track sweatshirt
Arts, Culture & Media
Alyona Alyona breathes new life into Ukrainian rap scene
Haitian American flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim
Haitian American musician Nathalie Joachim pays tribute to underrepresented women of Haiti
Man and woman wearing crown stand on balcony with blue, white and red flag in front of them
Women & Gender
What should a first lady do?
Women hold a coffin prop during a demonstration to protest femicide and violence against women in Paris.
Women & Gender
The ‘forgotten victims’ of femicide in France: Women over 65
A mother and daughter sit together on a couch. They are both part of the Saturday Mothers group.
Justice
Who are Turkey’s Saturday Mothers?
A crowd of people carry flags. One holds a sign that says "J'[HEART] Papa.
Reproductive rights
France moves to make reproductive technology legal for all
Nobel
Only 20 Nobels in the sciences have gone to women. Why?
Justin Trudeau
Elections
Trudeau’s ‘because it’s 2015’ feminist moment is over. Will women support him again?
A man holds a sign that says "Let my peoplegault into the public service"
In Québec, teachers return to school under new religious symbols ban
A Buddhist nun with a shaved head takes part in a Kung Fu display
Climate Change
Climate change forced Nepal women into trafficking. Now, ‘Kung Fu’ nuns are cycling the globe for them.
Mayan Girls
Florida teen girls step up to translate Indigenous Mayan languages
A woman stands with smartphone in a shop with organizers
Elections
Jewish and Arab women unite to defy Bedouin voter suppression in Israeli election
portable shower
Displacement
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
A woman takes tampon boxes out of a supermarket shelf in Buenos Aires January 16, 2015.  
Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook
A large, white rocket sits on a launchpad at night time.
Women & Gender
Indian women scientists’ lunar mission a ‘giant leap for womankind’
Noam
How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS
A woman with long hair and earrings smiles
Health & Medicine
These Chilean women joined thousands suing for discriminatory health insurance. Can reforms fix it?
protest
Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they want the world to know
A plastic sex doll with brown wig sits in an office chair
Sexuality
South Korea’s sex doll industry stirs controversy with ‘life-size’ imports
Maria Beraldo
Music
Musician Maria Beraldo rebels against Brazil’s far-right leader through song
woman wearing sunglasses holds sign that says "abortion is ok"
Reproductive rights
Meet the ‘abortion aunts’ of Berlin who help Polish women terminate unwanted pregnancies
Women in black hijab shop at market in Sanaa, Yemen
Conflict
Yemeni women activists escape war with the help of a global, underground network
young journalist
Refugees
Young migrants and refugees in Greece wanted to be heard. So they started their own newspaper.
Two young children are shown playing with a grocery cart with container homes shown in the background.
Women & Gender
Mothers and babies lack basic needs in Greek refugee camps
A woman stands over a spread of dishes in the kitchen
Food
A Syrian mom in Istanbul builds a business from her own kitchen with Whatsapp
Women stand together and hold sings in Spanish in a city.
Lifestyle & Belief
Photos: The women of Argentina’s abortion debate
Marcela Juan
Women & Gender
These Argentine women fight against a justice system ‘written by men, for men’
The US women's soccer team celebrates with the world cup trophy
Women & Gender
Crowds chanted ‘equal pay’ — but that could take centuries
Two women walk with their hands clasped together as they're surrounded by a crowd of reporters
Sexual violence
How sex traffickers use modeling contracts to lure young women
class
Education
Mandatory sex ed curriculum stirs controversy in Argentina
social worker in soccer field
Health & Medicine
Argentina is divided over abortion — even the feminists
Joanna
‘Maternity jail’: Women in Argentina and the US find ways around restrictive abortion laws
Adele Willie, Lavenia Yalovi and Jennesa Hinge Moli are female sports commentators from the Pacific Islands.
Sports
‘Commentary for Good’ brings underrepresented languages to the Women’s World Cup