
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


As Pakistan confronts a series of crippling heatwaves, it is pregnant women and newborns who suffer the most. As a result, its midwives have found themselves on the frontline of climate change. Also, as Saudi Arabia declares rights for women in the country has improved considerably, one activist who promoted gender equality in her social media posts, is now in jail. Annette Young talks to Bissan Fakih from Amnesty International about her plight. Plus, the tale of Alice Milliat, the little-known French woman who established the first-ever women's Olympics in Paris in 1922.
 By FRANCE 24 English
By FRANCE 24 English5
11 ratings
As Pakistan confronts a series of crippling heatwaves, it is pregnant women and newborns who suffer the most. As a result, its midwives have found themselves on the frontline of climate change. Also, as Saudi Arabia declares rights for women in the country has improved considerably, one activist who promoted gender equality in her social media posts, is now in jail. Annette Young talks to Bissan Fakih from Amnesty International about her plight. Plus, the tale of Alice Milliat, the little-known French woman who established the first-ever women's Olympics in Paris in 1922.

4 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

2 Listeners

21 Listeners

4 Listeners

0 Listeners

4 Listeners

24 Listeners

6 Listeners

5 Listeners

40 Listeners

3 Listeners

4 Listeners

5 Listeners

1 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners