Topic: Women

Those who are working to end female genital mutilation -- and some who practice it -- speak out.

Benazir Bhutto lived a life of Shakespearean proportions.

Meet five female soldiers who saw action in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle.

Rose is reunited with her daughter, Nangabire, after a decade of apart.

Rose implores a group of Congolese women to take charge of their lives and communities.

Rose's oldest daughter, Aimee, may have paid the highest price during the civil war.

Called back in 2007 as Pakistan's best hope for democracy, Benazir paid the highest price.

Her wedding to Asif Ali Zardari was compared to a Bollywood movie or a campaign event.

In a recorded interview, Benazir described the people as her greatest source of strength.

Once a month, these girl scouts reunite with their mothers at Gatesville's Hilltop Prison.

Organizing women to plant trees became an act of political resistance in Kenya.

What led Cyntoia — who grew-up in a reasonable home environment — to this tragic end?

In 2006, she became the first woman elected president of an African nation.

Byron Hurt examines representations of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.

When women take their place at the peace table they often tip the balance.

In India, children may be the best agents of change.

Visit an unusual summer camp for young women where they recreate life in the Antebellum South.

At age 10 Sabere was sold to a man in the Taliban and suffered six years of slavery and abuse.

A group of incarcerated teenage girls are given a shot at redemption ... by starring in a musical.

The filmmaker goes behind the scenes at a juvenile justice facility.

The driving force behind Daisy Bates's activism was the murder of her mother.

How does a romantic portrayal of the past affect current attitudes on race and gender?

The myth of the southern belle

Erasing slavery from Secession

Justifications for slavery

The southern small farmer

An intimate profile of America’s first all-female mariachi band.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag linguist, helps her tribe revive its mother tongue.

Sign language is who I am

What do you love about being deaf?