Global Voices

The evolution of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria; activist Hafsat Abiola fights for democracy and rights for women.

An Iranian woman holds on to her dreams of becoming an astronaut, and reaches out to the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.

Julio Bocca accepts the challenge to direct a long-forgotten national ballet company in Uruguay.

Teenage art student Zhao Changtong supports the old tradition of expressing patriotism in the streets of Pingyao, China.

Daughters of the Forest tells the powerful, uplifting story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who attend a radical high school — Centro Educativo Mbaracayú — where they learn to protect the threatened forest and forge a better future for themselves.

An Egyptian filmmaker documents his interaction with Cairo policemen over the course of three years.