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This week on the show: we hear about how different groups around the world are fighting back: Mexican women helping American women with their unwa...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The power of music - We'll hear about how music is playing an important role in the conflict plaguing Ethiopia, where it...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Myanmar’s defectors, India’s harrowing second Covid wave - We get a rare glimpse behind the scenes of Myanmar’s notoriou...

  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Struggling for survival - How are textile workers in Bangladesh faring who are unable to socially distance in their fact...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: Staying alive! - We hear the inspiring stories of female judges in Guatemala who are risking their lives for justice. Sin...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Will Germans change their Christmas plans enough to avert a coronavirus catastrophe in January? Also, why are women so muc...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: What does it take to survive? - How do you survive in a country where gang violence and sky-high murder rates are rampan...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Fighting for change - One year after the Indian government stripped Kashmir of its special status, we hear how Kashmiris...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The many challenges of the new normal - The pandemic is making sexual violence against women and children more prevalent ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The ripple effects of coronavirus - The coronavirus pandemic has had and still is having a big impact on people's lives...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observat...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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this week on the show: Work — and no play? - As today's fast-paced world spins faster and faster, the pressure is taking a toll on people's me...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Bitter Sugar and facing the drought - Bitter lives and little hope: meeting sugarcane workers and their families in Guat...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Fighting for basic rights - Women's activists in one of Colombia's most violent cities are starting to make a differenc...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Challenging the status quo - We'll meet the Indian fishermen's wives who flexed their muscles to start their own rowing-...

Bought by WRGY, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
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This week on the show: After price hikes, people in Egypt are struggeling to make ends meet. Venezuela is facing an uprecedented economic collapes ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: After the Escape - Nicaraguans living in exile push for political change in their home country, refugees with disabi...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Changing the Game - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. But according to South Korean beauty standards that us...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The world's largest airport, an gigantic bridge, an new canal: ambitous infrastructure projects are supposed to make Istanb...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Living Planet: “Sisters are doin’ it!” - Women in Saudi Arabia made the headlines this week. They are now allowed to drive, thanks not least ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , Radio Newark, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Sushmita Memorial, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sushmita Banerjee pled a full life. Full of danger, trying to make a difference in this world. This week Sandip Roy remembers her legacy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pina Maisano Grassi is a fabrics store owner and dedicated activist in the fight against the Mafia.  Her husband was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the Mafia’s extortion tax., Credit: Nancy Greenleese
An 84-year-old grandmother and business owner is taking on the mob in Sicily. Organized criminals demand that business owners pay protection money...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:21
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The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now a decade old, and the impacts on women's health and safety in the country are dire. This progra...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2009
  • Length: 38:50