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Featured Women: Devi Machete, Satsuki Ina, Serena Adlerstein, Uncategorized
Featured Topics: Children's Rights, displaced people, Gender Rights, Human Rights, Immigration policy, Indigenous Rights, refugee issues and immigration, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Children's Rights, displaced people, Gender Rights, Human Rights, Immigration policy, Indigenous Rights, refugee issues and immigration, Women's Rights
The USA and many nations in Europe, have slammed the gates shut against desperate immigrants and refugees, criminalizing and brutalizing them. Three activist women co-founded groups to challenge the policies of detention, deportation, discrimination and denigration of migrants. They are
Featured Women: Ailbhe Snyth, Marta Lempart, Sara Hutchinson Ratcliffe, Sarah Flores
Featured Topics: Abortion, Reproductive Rights
Featured Topics: Abortion, Reproductive Rights
Abortion and women’s reproductive rights are still hot button issues around the world. Women have a long way to go to obtain control over our own bodies, our own family planning,
Featured Women: Kandi Mossett White, Kathy Jentnil Kijiner, Osprey Orielle Lake, Pennie Opal Plant, Wanda Culp
Featured Topics: Arts and Social Activism, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, forests, global climate action summit, indigenous women, petrochemicals, petroleum, poetry, Water Issues, women's assembly
Featured Topics: Arts and Social Activism, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, forests, global climate action summit, indigenous women, petrochemicals, petroleum, poetry, Water Issues, women's assembly
During the week in 2018 of California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, women took to the streets to let attendees at the summit know they don’t want Brown’s policies, including cap and trade. Indigenous women made their views
Featured Women: Aura Tegria, Gloria Ushigua, Kandi Mossett White, Leila Salazar Lopez
Featured Topics: Amazon, Animal Rights, anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Ecology, environmental racism, forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, Land Rights for Women, Nonviolent, petrochemicals, petroleum, Water Issues
Featured Topics: Amazon, Animal Rights, anti-fossil fuel activism, Big Oil, biodiversity, Civil Disobedience, climate change, climate justice, deforestation, Ecology, environmental racism, forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, indigenous women, Land Rights for Women, Nonviolent, petrochemicals, petroleum, Water Issues
Currently the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest are in a struggle with worldwide multinational corporations that want to take over their lands for oil extraction, commercial palm oil, commercial agriculture, mining, and other massively destructive enterprises. Women leaders have
Featured Women: Estrella Lasry, Melanie Capiccioni, Neema Kaseje, Sarah Giles
Featured Topics: climate change, displaced people, doctors and healers, epidemics, refugee issues and immigration, resource poor nations, war
Featured Topics: climate change, displaced people, doctors and healers, epidemics, refugee issues and immigration, resource poor nations, war
Women Rising Radio follows four women working with Doctors Without Borders, three M.D.’s and a nurse. On board a ship rescuing refugees drowning at sea, treating malnutrition in the rural areas of South Sudan, in Liberia working on Ebola, saving
Featured Women: Aileen Mioko Smith, Claire Greensfelder, Ursula Sladek
Featured Topics: antinuclear activists, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, nuclear abolitionists, nuclear radiation, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: antinuclear activists, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, nuclear abolitionists, nuclear radiation, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights
Women Rising Radio presents Part Two of our two-part miniseries on Antinuclear Abolitionists. In Part One we profiled women struggling to eliminate nuclear weapons and war. In Part Two we profile activists working to eliminate nuclear energy, including power plants,
Featured Women: Abacca Anjain-Maddison, Fujiko Yoshikawa, Jackie Cabasso, Kate Hudson, Nadezda Kutepova, Profiled Women, Sharon Dolev
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, antinuclear activists, atom bomb, climate change, Nuclear Issues, Peace, war and conflict
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, antinuclear activists, atom bomb, climate change, Nuclear Issues, Peace, war and conflict
This is Part One of a two part investigation by Women Rising Radio, which profiles women advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons and power plants. This program focuses on nuclear weapons and war, and features Jackie Cabasso, executive director of the
Featured Women: Elena Urlaeva, Ima Matul, Joanna Ewart-James, Supriya Awasthi
Featured Topics: forced labor, forced labor workers' rights, Human Rights, human trafficking, slavery, Women's Rights, workers' rights
Featured Topics: forced labor, forced labor workers' rights, Human Rights, human trafficking, slavery, Women's Rights, workers' rights
Ima Matul, CAST LA Joanna Ewart-James WALK FREE Elena Urlaeva Independent Human Rights Monitor Supriya Awasthi FREE THE SLAVES Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer: Vanessa Lowe, Monica Lopez
Featured Women: Adelita San Vicente Tello, Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Sage La Pena, Vandana Shiva
Featured Topics: biodiversity, Conservation, Eco-justice, Farmer's Suicides, farming and women, food sovereignty, indian cotton, indian rice, Indigenous Rights, mexican corn, Transpacific Partnership, World Trade Organization
Featured Topics: biodiversity, Conservation, Eco-justice, Farmer's Suicides, farming and women, food sovereignty, indian cotton, indian rice, Indigenous Rights, mexican corn, Transpacific Partnership, World Trade Organization
Vandana Shiva, Navdanya (India) Adelita San Vicente Tello, Seeds of Life (Mexico) Sage La Pena, Native American Clinical Herbalist Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Native American Youth Educator Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer: Stephanie Welch