World in Progress Folgen

In this program: Women's rights activist campaigning for textile workers - rampant violence against women in Guatemala impacts lives - Teaching resilience to girls and boys in Bihar - Working women in Afghanistan.

In this week's show: Europe responds to a new bottleneck of migrants along the so-called Balkan route, why Amnesty International is calling 2015 one of the bleakest years on record, and life and death under Venezuela's buckling health system. Plus, we visit the South African theater that's been pushing boundaries since 1976.

A Syrian filmmaker who documented the war in Aleppo from his balcony. Lobster divers off the coast of Honduras who are risking their lives to earn a living. And we follow the story of an Afghan translator who had to flee his country after receiving threats from the Taliban.