Shows Featuring: Gender 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 Topics: Anti-militarism, Eco-justice, epidemics, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Religion, war and conflict, women, Women's Rights, World women's movements
Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service (USA) Amber Khan, Women For Women International (USA) Zainab Salbi, Emerita, Women For Women International (USA) Martha Karnga, Executive Director, Bassa Women’s Development Association, (Liberia) Credits Host: Sandina Robbins Producer: Lynn Feinerman Audio Engineer:
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, Civil Disobedience, Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights for Women, Nonviolent, Peace, Religion, war and conflict, World women's movements
Women are gaining influence worldwide in leadership for democracy, civil society, women’s, human and children’s rights, ecology and sustainability. In this program we profile three women activists against war and armaments. Sister Stella Soh, a Korean nun, fights to
Featured Topics: (physical, Anti-militarism, Arts and Social Activism, Children's Rights, Civil Disobedience, Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Eco-justice, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, Gender Rights, Grassroots Organizing, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Law & Conservation, mental), Nonviolent, Peace, war and conflict, Water Issues, Women's Rights
Featured women: Hettie Geenen, First Mate Rainbow Warrior Leila Deen, Senior Campaigner Greenpeace Laila Williams, Campaigner Greenpeace We profile women of Greenpeace, the legendary eco-activist organization. Hettie Geenan is first mate on the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior. Leila Deen leads
Featured Topics: Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, farming and women, Gender Rights, GMO issues, GMO's, Grassroots Organizing, Health (physical, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Labor Rights, land grabbing, land rights, Land Rights for Women, Law & Conservation, mental), Monsanto, Nuclear Issues, peasant movments, peasants and democracy, pesticide damage worldwide, pesticides, Politics, resource poor nations, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, TPP, trade agreements, Transpacific Partnership, women, women farmers, Women's Rights
We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights and social justice. Canadian Nettie Wiebe fights to keep seeds in the hands of small farmers. From the
Featured Topics: Anti-militarism, Arts and Social Activism, Entrpreneurism, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, Gender Rights, Peace, resource poor nations, Water Issues, World women's movements
Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment, and civil society. On this program we profile a dynamic partnership between the Women’s Earth Alliance and the Global Women’s Water Initiative: working on women’s
Featured Topics: Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Gender Rights, Indigenous Rights, Misogyny, Politics, Women's Rights
Women worldwide are gaining influence as leaders: struggling for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. On this edition of Making Contact, we profile three tireless and effective women: Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya; Devorah Brous, founder of