Author: Leela de Paula

Leela de Paula is an editorial fellow at Ms. and a junior at Smith College studying government and gender studies. Her academic interests include global feminism, international politics and feminist legal theory. She calls many continents home.
Ms. Global: Goodbye Merkel, Hello Gender Parity in German Cabinet; Barbados Becomes a Republic; Rohingya Sue Facebook for Promoting Genocide

Ms. Global: Goodbye Merkel, Hello Gender Parity in German Cabinet; Barbados Becomes a Republic; Rohingya Sue Facebook for Promoting Genocide

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Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.

This week: Sandra Mason becomes Barbados’s first ever president; journalist Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize; China is “the world’s biggest captor of journalists”; Germany will have a gender-equal Cabinet for the first time; countries with the highest reported crimes against women include Sweden, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S.; and more.

Ms. Global: #WhereIsPengShuai?; Greece Accused of Ignoring Domestic Violence; Bolivia Debates Abortion Rights; The End of COP 26

Ms. Global: #WhereIsPengShuai?; Sweden May Get Its First Woman PM; Bolivia Debates Abortion Rights; The End of COP 26

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The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully lacks paid family leave and equal access to health care. But Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.

This week: Romania’s massive coronavirus outbreak; Afghan families forced to sell their daughters; the aftermath of COP 26; where is Peng Shuai?; Sweden may get its first woman PM; and more.

Women Climate Leaders Aren’t Satisfied with COP 26. You Shouldn't Be Either

Women Climate Leaders Aren’t Satisfied With COP 26. You Shouldn’t Be Either

Women are at the forefront of local, national and global environmental movements as both the greatest victims and greatest fighters of climate change—yet men continue to make most of the decisions to combat the destruction that they themselves designed.

Multi-generational female environmental activists react to the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 26, their thoughts on what needs to be done to combat environmental destruction, and their idea of real, sustainable global change.

Ms. Global: World Leaders Pledge Climate Action at COP 26; Barbados Elects First President; Israel Pushes West Bank Settlements

Ms. Global: World Leaders Pledge Climate Action at COP 26; Barbados Elects First President; Israel Pushes West Bank Settlements

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Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.

This week: Japan’s lower house has fewer women despite its empowerment law; despite disapproval from the Biden administration, Israel will build over 3,000 new homes in the West Bank; Barbados prepares to “fully leave our colonial past behind”; a historic bill in Sierra Leone mandates tat women occupy 30 percent of Cabinet posts and Parliament seats; and more.

Ms. Global: Muslim Leaders Make Women’s Rights Plea to Taliban; Pakistan Reckons with Femicide and #JusticeForNoor

Ms. Global: Muslim Leaders Make Women’s Rights Plea to Taliban; Pakistan Reckons with Femicide and #JusticeForNoor

The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully lacks paid family leave and equal access to health care. But Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.

This week: A former senior diplomat in Israel alleges late-President Shimon Peres sexually assaulted her in the ’80s; Morocco’s new Parliament elects most women ministers in country’s history; Soccer players in Venezuela and Australia join the global #MeToo movement; Pakistan struggles to come to terms with a gruesome femicide; and more.

Ms. Global: Arab World Gets Its First Female Prime Minister; Historic Trans Representation in Germany; Islamophobia in the U.K.

Ms. Global: Arab World Gets Its First Female Head of State; Historic Trans Representation in Germany; Islamophobia in the U.K.

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The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully lacks paid family leave and equal access to health care. But Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.