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Her Fashion Brand Empowers Women in Guatemala
From: The Story Exchange
Caption: Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia, Credit: Mercado Global
Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia helps women artisans tap international markets through her social enterprise, Mercado Global -- allowing them to earn critical...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:58
The Women of Afghanistan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: "Nightmare" by Shamsia Hassani, Credit: Shamsia Hassani
With all the talk about the women and girls of Afghanistan, Sandip wonders if it was ever really about them at all.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
World in Progress 08/19/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Changing laws and lives in limbo - Thousands of women and children of former ISIS fighters are stuck in camps in Syria...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Dispatch #354: The Shadow of Caste
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Headlines from the Telegraph, Credit: Sandip Roy
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
All is Fair in Love and Pharma
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Johnson & Johnson Fairness skin creams
In the midst of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling skin whitening creams.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 02/06/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Uphill battle - This week, we meet activists in sub-Saharan Africa who are trying to change entrenched cultural belief...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Just Like Family
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alexis Okeowo, Foreign Correspondent
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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What's it like working as a foreign correspondent? You're about to find out. Alexis Okeowo spent a good part of her career in Nigeria, Uganda and ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 4: Razia's Way, One School's Fight for Afghanistan's Girls
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: Season One: Foreverstan
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How do you convince the conservative men of Afghanistan to get behind girls' education? This is the story of one determined Afghan woman who seems...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 1
Nicole Tung, Award Winning Photo-Journalist
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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Tahrir Square, the conflicts in Libya, and Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe. Award winning photo-journalist Nicole Tung has shared powerful, poi...

Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering Sushmita
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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.

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
India's most wanted phone
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Police officials escort a suspect (C), in the gang-rape of a female photographer, from a crime branch unit station in Mumbai., Credit: First Post
The most wanted cellphone in the country belongs to someone no one had heard of a week ago - a 21-year-old resident of Central Mumbai. The phone’s...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
A "silent" rally in Kolkata against rape.
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Protesters at College Square in Kolkata, India, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy takes us to the rally in Kolkata where thousands marched against the rash of violent rapes in the state of Bengal.

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Global Ethics Corner: Sexual Violence in India: From Punishment to Deterrence
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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A brutal gang rape on a New Delhi bus has sparked global outrage and national soul-searching in India. Many are calling for the death penalty for t...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:02
GNP Show 03 One hour: Clinics in Sudan and Seafood Slavery
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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If you get sick in southern Sudan your chances of dying escalate. Health care is a rare thing in that part of the world. This week, the World Vis...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
Gaza Fisherwoman
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The Gaza Strip borders the Mediterranean Sea, and many people in Gaza fish. It’s a traditional line of work for Palestinians there – for men. But n...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
WVR - Show 362 (Half Hour) - Afghan Women
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Afghanistan is a male dominated country. Women are often treated as little more than an object or possession. No education, no jobs, and abuse is c...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
Unwed Mothers
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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South Korea is considered to be fairly advanced in many ways, but traditional values remain strong. So if you’re single, and pregnant, you’re likel...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
Status of Women in Libya
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Women’s lib in Libya? Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi relies on female bodyguards for his personal protection. Some jokingly refer to them as Lara C...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:49
Tij
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Girls and women in Nepal live in a culture that treats them as second-class citizens. But they have a very public way of expressing their displeas...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
Dr. Jill Seaman
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Dr Jill Seaman is driven by a desire to help people. She’s spent much of her life in a remote part of Sudan, helping villagers who suffer from inf...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
Congo Princess
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Panama, a descendant of African slaves is fighting to keep her culture alive. Marlon Bishop brings us this story of the Congo Princess.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
Yemen Times Editor
From: World Vision Report
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Yemen sits at the southernmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula and is the poorest country in the Middle East. Just 30% of its women can read compared...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 1