Why "Butch Is Not a Dirty Word"; Indias High Court privacy rights ruling signals sodomy law repeal, Finland retains its infertility rule for legal gender change, trans U.S. troops enlist in lawsuits to fight Trumps service ban, Australias plebiscite on love predictably descends into hate, Ugandan activists defiantly celebrate Pride underground, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

August 31, 2017, two men were convicted for destroying evidence at the scene of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination in 2007. She had been the first women to lead a Muslim-majority country, and was campaigning to return for a 3rd term. WINGS looks back at how she entered politics and what she did and did not achieve for women.
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Audio documentary about the successful fight for a Constitutional Amendment enshrining US women's right to vote and the still-pending struggle for an Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution. Includes stories about Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977), whose work for women bridged both causes. Host(s): Nahanni Rous Featured Speakers/Guests: Jennifer Krafchik, Deputy Director of the museum in the Belmont-Paul Womens Equality National Monument in Washington, DC; Nevada State Senator Pat Spearman. (In March 2017, Nevada voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment-- 95 years after it was first introduced to Congress); Nevada State Senator Joe Hardy(ERA opponent); vox pops from the National Mall in Washington DC; Bettina Hager, Director of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition; Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation and former President of the US National Organization for Women (NOW); Phyllis Schlafly, ERA opponent and founder of Eagle Forum; late US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; current Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In 1987, the Raging Granny movement was born in Victoria BC. Thirty years later in 2017, they were honoured with an exhibit at the Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Two of the earliest members and many other Raging Grannies from newer groups describe their activism and sing their political songs in this documentary
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We use our words as weapons, says longtime therapist and author Sharon Ellison, "most of us communicate from a place where we feel defensive and like victims most of the time." Communicating without attacking or defending is harder than you might think, but sometimes a single neutral, gentle, curious question can shift years of negative interactions. A lot of them could change the world.

Believing recruiters' lies, "Karine," "Susan" and "Cynthia" flew to Kuwait for well-paying jobs, only to find themselves as housemaids forced to work 18 hours a day, locked in with no means of communication, beaten, hungry, sexually advanced on, robbed of their possessions, and sleeping on the floor. They tell how they got there and how they escaped.


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The prescient close of La Duke's Maria Savio Free Speech lecture titled "Indigenous Vision for the New Millennium." For part 1 and more information, use this link: http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=117641
Six years ago, the 50-year-old Sydney Rape Crisis Centre was given a government mandate to have its counselors answer national calls at 1800RESPECT, but no increase in funds to handle the tripling work load. Recently the government announced a vast increase in funds but gave it all to a for-profit insurance company to run a triage service using answerers working from home. Complaints, unionization, and a campaign called No Profit from Rape have ensued. Program has two speeches by Simone White,- one about the government's neoliberal approach to social services generally, and one, on International Women's Day, about the specific case of 1800RESPECT.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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Third and final episode of the series Women, The Oppressed Majority, discusses prehistoric matriarchies and contemporary matrilineal societies where economic basis is satisfying needs; women's role in socialist revolutions; visions for life without patriarchy from perspectives of a trans woman, a dominatrix, and a Wiccan; and an idea of how to get beyond patriarchy with worldwide women's activism. Madelaine Imber and Tandiwe Aebi-Moyo, participants in edition 2 of the new Australian magazine Butch Is Not a Dirty Word, talk about their lives as butches in various communities and about being in the new magazine created by Melbourne-based Butch activist, Esther Godoy. They are interviewed by Jiselle Hanna on her program Accent of Women, which airs weekly on community radio 3CR in Melbourne.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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From the WINGS archives, the late Professor Wangari Maathai interviewed about the Green Belt Movement that she founded with the National Council of Women of Kenya, which addresses problems of streams drying up, food insecurity, and a dearth of firewood and fencing, by organizing the grassroots women to plant and care for millions and millions of trees.
A 2015 change to the courts in China has allowed more than 200,000 people to file complaints against former leader of China Jiang Zemin for the campaign he originated to persecute and eliminate Falun Gong practitioners. Documentary in which women who have suffered and others speak out.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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A Greek Parliamentarian tells international women journalists of the ravages of austerity on her country; a resident of the Greek island of Kos describes the generosity of islanders towards the many thousands of refugees that appear on their shores without food, water, shoes, or legal status after fleeing Syria and other countries.
With mental health care increasingly mechanized, and families being responsible yet left out, Lisbeth Riis Cooper realized there had to be another way to help the mentally ill, and set about to create it. She runs both a live-in care facility and an international network for family support.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company (located in Canada) that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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