Mar 10 U.N. Report: Closing Gender Gap is Good for Food Security Closing the gender gap could increase agricultural yield and help address food security in starving countries, according to a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report released Monday, "The State of Food and Agriculture." "We know that women deserve the… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch News Wrap: At Least 13 Dead After Sectarian Violence Erupts in Egypt In other news Wednesday, at least 13 people were killed and 140 wounded in new sectarian violence in Egypt as Muslims attacked Christian demonstrators. The Christians were protesting the burning of a church. Also, a suicide bomber killed at least… Continue watching
Mar 09 Behind the Scenes at an Interview With 3 Powerful Women People often ask me if I like doing television interviews. They follow up with: Are they hard to do? My answer is that I love doing them, and that every single one is a challenge. As a reporter, I want… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch Laura Bush, Melinda Gates, CARE President on Women’s Issues, U.S. Foreign Aid Aid for Women, Children Goes 'Hand in Hand' With Stability… Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch If Gadhafi Falls, Who Would Govern Libya and How? Gadhafi Vows Libyans Will 'Fight Back' if World Powers Intervene… Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch In Libya’s East, Rebels Conduct Hit-And-Run Raids on Better-Armed Forces Battle for Control of Key Libyan Cities Intensifies as Gadhafi Denounces West… Continue watching
Mar 09 Heavy-Handed Response to Journalists in China Becomes the Story By Larisa Epatko Anonymous calls on the Internet for Tunisian-inspired protests in China roused several hundred people to protest on Feb. 20, but the heavy-handed response that followed actually became the story, said Kathleen McLaughlin, GlobalPost's correspondent in Beijing. Continue reading
Mar 09 Obama Nominates Commerce Secretary Locke for China Ambassador Post Gary Locke with President Obama (Bloomberg via Getty Images) Updated at 5:56 p.m. ET Gary Locke is on track to be the first Chinese-American -- and the first Asian American -- to become U.S. ambassador to Beijing, but what… Continue reading
Mar 09 High Casualties in Afghanistan in 2010; Bombing at Pakistan Funeral Kills at Least 36; NPR CEO Schiller Resigns A new U.N. report says 2,700 civilians died in Afghanistan in 2010, a 15 percent increase from 2009. The report said NATO was responsible for 16 percent of those deaths, a figure that was highlighted by the deaths of… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch In Guatemala, Family Planning Clashes with Religion, Tradition In rural Guatemala, it is not unusual for women to have as many as 10 children, beginning in their teens and continuing into their 40s. That can take a big physical toll on mothers. Ray Suarez reports on the cultural,… Continue watching