National Geographic USA - 11.2019

When a radicalized Muslim went on a 2012 killing rampage in his hometown of Toulouse, the first victim was also Muslim: a paratr ...

Their superiors keep pressuring them to keep quiet and stop making trouble, but they refuse. When a nun in Kerala told church le ...

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Photography for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. THERESA KACHINDAMOTO REMEMBERS the first c ...

INDIA INTREPID VOTERS The 1950 Constitution of India, the founding national document of the former British col- ony, ensures suf ...

When Marième Tamata- Varin was encouraged in 2014 to run for mayor of the village of Yèbles, her two children were bullied and s ...

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J OYC E BANDA FORMER PRESIDENT OF MALAWI Western feminism can’t work here ... In Africa, women have been leaders before, and the ...

states in the Middle East—such as Nadine Labaki’s Lebanon, where women can wear as much or as little clothing as they please—hav ...

Christian Dior artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri breaks up in laughter as she and the couture studio head wrangle an elab- o ...

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An 11th-century monastery in Provence, St. Paul de Mausole, also houses a historic psychiatric facility; Vincent van Gogh painte ...

Though her body looked male, her childhood self-portraits showed a girl named Rebecca. A developer of an imaging tool that searc ...

BOCHRA BELHAJ HAMIDA LAWYER AND PARLIAMENTARIAN, TUNISIA We women activists feared that the revolution would take women backward ...

is also in the Arab world and is home to about 11.5 million people, women have long played a major role in politics and civil so ...

CEO, conservationist, agitator: Paula Kahumbu runs the Kenyan conservation group WildlifeDirect. Kahumbu describes to city teena ...

After her family accepted her ardor for learning, Elizabeth Pantoren earned a doc- torate and became an officer for a conservanc ...

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A luminary in the high-testosterone restaurant world (she’s the only woman in the U.S. ever awarded three Michelin stars), San F ...

At 28, after a decade as Jordan’s biggest voice in accessibility, Aya Aghabi passed away in August 2019. Reliant on a wheelchair ...