Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Issue for Italy’s Hard Right
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal limbo.
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Interview – Sandra Weissinger
Sandra Weissinger discusses the dynamics and impacts of racism in different settings, from higher education and the workplace to general societal interactions.
In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up
China’s one-child policy has led to too few women. Grooms are now paying more money for wives, in a tradition that has faced growing resistance.
Report Finds London Police Force Is Sexist and Racist
The report, ordered up after the murder of Sarah Everard by a London police officer in 2021, denounced the culture within Britain’s largest police force and called for change.
Authorities Reinstate Alcohol Ban for Aboriginal Australians
The reaction to a rise in crime has renewed hard questions about race and control, and about the open wounds of discrimination.
Dying Children and Frozen Flocks in Afghanistan’s Bitter Winter of Crisis
Hundreds have died in plunging temperatures, and malnutrition has been rampant, even as the Taliban government’s ban on female workers has hampered international aid.
Shinta Ratri, Fighter for Transgender Rights in Indonesia, Dies at 60
The Islamic boarding school she helped found offers a haven for transgender women in a country where discrimination can be acute.
Your Thursday Briefing: Key Meetings for Biden and Putin
Also, another deadly Israeli raid in the West Bank and South Korea’s fight over L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
Glória Maria, Who Broke Barriers in Brazilian Television, Dies at 73
Thought to be Brazil’s first Black TV journalist and a rare female anchor, she was a trailblazer in a country with a long history of racism.
‘Tirailleurs’: Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget
The success of “Tirailleurs,” set in the mire and mayhem of World War I, has helped resurface the often neglected story of colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight.