Ashley Lackovich

Opinion | It Isn’t Freedom if It’s Not for Everyone

My win-a-trip winner, Sofia Barnett, wrote this excellent piece from our West Africa trip, arguing that American feminism should show more concern for global issues for women and girls: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o... She's right.

Afghan women students in Oman face expulsion after Trump's USAID freeze US aid funding enabled the women to study in Oman - but their scholarships have been abruptly terminated.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 - news thanks to the new US- Taliban axis 😢
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For the dignity of all: supporting USAID - Girls' Globe The image is still vivid: girls, between eleven and fourteen years old, sitting in a circle, waiting. Not for treats, but for notebooks and pens. These girls had been in school, but their families cou...

I will never stop defending #USAID. #humanitarianaid #development #girlsglobe www.girlsglobe.org/2025/02/18/f...

Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.

Emergency food, TB testing and other programs have not resumed, despite a judge’s order halting President Trump’s dismantling of USAID.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

Opinion | The U.S.A.I.D. Chaos Already Has Dire Effects The agency keeps children alive and us safe.

Right on, @nickkristof.bsky.social.

First USAID death as freeze sees oxygen supplies cut off for refugee A 71-year-old woman in Myanmar has died after being discharged from a USAID-funded hospital.

Many thousands will die around the world as they contend with a complete removal of humanitarian aid due to the closure of @altusaid.bsky.social. #Trump and #Musk will have blood on their hands.

U.S. aid freeze hits secret girls' schools, post-flood repair and much more The suspension of foreign aid by the Trump administration is having a worldwide impact. Here's how it has affected projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This is not okay. Educating women and girls is essential to the future liberation of Afghanistan.

U.S. foreign aid freeze hits secret girls' schools, flood repair, scholarships : Goats and Soda : NPR search.app/v3SENhB8mwGs...