Story Archive
2009-10-22
A Laotian NGO worker describes how her childhood led her to her current work.
2009-10-06
The mother of an activist monk in Burma talks about her family's sacrifices.
2009-10-05
A North Korean mother describes how she and her family joined a tiny group of defectors to resettle in the United States.
2009-09-22
A North Korean mother laments seven years of separation from her son.
2009-09-18
The founder of one of Cambodia’s most influential NGOs talks about how to more effectively combat human trafficking in her country.
2009-08-28
A young North Korean defector talks about the influence of foreign music on her classmates in North Korea's closed society.
2009-08-24
Forget what you've learned about Muslim women as second-class citizens, experts say. Uyghur women have long played leading roles.
2009-08-21
Women take on a bigger role after deadly riots and hundreds of detentions in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
2009-06-03
A former student leader of Beijing's June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement talks about her vision for China's future.
2009-05-11
On a perilous ocean journey, starvation leads refugees to the unthinkable to stay alive.
2009-05-11
After the Vietnam War (1959-75), thousands of Vietnamese took to the sea fleeing persecution by the new communist government. Three women, now resettled overseas, describe the horrors of that perilous journey.
2009-03-09
To mark International Women's Day 2009, five Chinese women discuss their experiences of work, family, and whether they are achieving gender equality.
