Chimwemwe Undi is a Winnipeg-based poet, editor and lawyer. She was the Winnipeg poet laureate for 2023 and 2024. She won the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards and ...

As a young journalist advocating for women's rights, I often find myself inspired by the mystifying thoughts of the great ...

The UN's Volker Turk has repeated an appeal to Afghanistan's Taliban to revoke the "deeply discriminatory decree." An Afghan ministry recently told NGOs they would lose their licenses if they ...

CBC Books has rounded up all our best books of 2024 lists in one handy place! Check out the top Canadian fiction, nonfiction, ...

Ambitious the Poet, a rising young talent from Tamale, in collaboration with Light Family Records, successfully hosted the maiden edition of the Ghana First Poetry Show. The event, aimed at promoting ...

I’ve been a Bollywood girlie ever since I first laid eyes on a TV screen. And when I say Bollywood, I mean grand sets, ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that Afghanistan's governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs.

Promise. Let's all just agree on this—thinking of something cool and fun and trendy (or whatever) to buy for a tween girl is intimidating. Between their ~attitudes~ and their, uh, scarily up-to ...

Someone said recently that AI might know more about the history of the First World War than all human historians put together but that he knew more than AI because he had read the poetry of ...

Whether you're young or young at heart, we have book ideas for you. This year's YA collection, gathered by NPR book critics ...

Nine- to 12-year-old girls, also known as tweens, unsurprisingly vacillate between childlike interests and adult-esque sophistication. (As the parent of a 9-year-old, I see this up close.) ...