Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children. 

Health

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives

Thousands of protesters gathered for the annual March for Life rally in Washington, DC. 

Conflict

A Latina explains why she backs the March for Life

Abortion-rights activists watch live video streaming of lawmakers in session, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Dec. 30, 2020. Congress approved a bill that legalizes abortion in Argentina.

Reproductive rights

Bill legalizing abortion passed in pope's native Argentina

Economics

The risk of banking 'contagion' 

Aïda Muluneh's "To pursue the ceaseless way," is exhibited on a bus stop in the Boston area. The photograph is part of "This is where I am," presented by New York-based Public Art Fund.

Aïda Muluneh's public art photo exhibit is 'a love letter to Ethiopia'

Posters with a message that read in Spanish "Free abortion."

Critical State

Founding fatherhood: Part II

Smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad after it was hit by a missile during US-led attacks, March 20, 2003.

Military

An Iraq vet grapples with lingering toll of war 

Colleagues gather at a cafeteria in the offices of Picsart, in Yerevan, Armenia.

Ukraine

Russia's war turns Armenia into a booming tech sector

Fans are seen on the stands during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Khimki and Rostov Rostov-on-Don, in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia.

Russia’s new Fan ID law seen as new form of authoritarian surveillance

Redevelopment proposal for Mumbai's largest informal settlement stirs controversy

Haitian Musician and Voudo priest Erol Josué has a new album titled Pèlerinaj, which includes songs like “Rén Sobo,” “Ati Sole” and “Palave Maria" that invoke Vodou goddesses and saints.

Music

Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage

A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.

Infrastructure

This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters

Wind generators near the Indigenous town of Juchitán de Zaragoza in Mexico.

Development

Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor aims to rival the Panama Canal

Pro-life protestors demonstrate in Belfast 2012. Even after today’s ruling abortion remains illegal in Northern Ireland in most circumstances. 

Despite ruling, abortion is mostly illegal in Northern Ireland. And clinic protests are common.

Zika reignites the debate on reproductive rights in Latin America

A priest holds up a banner reading "Brazil alive! Without abortion" while standing near an altar where Pope Francis later celebrated mass.

Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world

abortion rights

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