Cuba: A deserted revolution?

 

Cuba is witnessing an economic crisis that has taken the country back 30 years, to the so-called “Special Period”.

As then, when subsidies from the former Soviet Union vanished, Cubans are suffering hardships and acute shortages of everything, from food to fuel.

The difference is that today, many tell you that the worst shortage is of hope.

And so, a new mass exodus of Cubans is under way, the largest in four decades.

Fawzia Koofi: Afghan women pay highest price for what goes wrong

 

Afghanistan’s former deputy speaker of parliament discusses what’s at stake for women’s rights in her country.

Fawzia Koofi began her political career after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Her focus: promoting girls’ rights to education and protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse.

She has survived assassination attempts, but not even that stopped her from advocating for the rights of women in her country.