MATERNAL DISPATCHES with Hollie McKay
Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay is where frontline war reporting meets the stories that matter most: maternal health, human rights, and the human cost of conflict, told from the mother's lens.
Every week, I dive into the headlines that should be making news: the hidden humanitarian crises, the mothers and families too often forgotten, and the extraordinary resilience of people surviving on the margins of war and policy failure.
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MATERNAL DISPATCHES with Hollie McKay
Latest Episodes
The Boys We Left Behind: The Heartbreaking Truth of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan, and America’s Missed Opportunity
Every morning in Kabul, a 14-year-old boy named Abdul waved from behind a bakery window. Then one day he was gone — taken by a government official, the kind the United States was funding to fight its war. What happened to Abdul has a name: bach...
Can America Strip Citizenship From Sex Offenders, And Should It?
The Trump administration is pursuing the largest denaturalization push in American history, more than 400 people targeted for having their citizenship stripped. The cases that have been made public are damning: men who abused children, groomed ...
Who is Buying? The Demand Side of Afghanistan’s Child Marriage Market
The buyers in this market share one thing across every category: nobody is looking for them. Coverage of Afghanistan’s child marriage crisis is overwhelmingly supply-side. How many girls. How poor are the families. What do the Taliban edicts sa...
Why We Rage Against Predators But Shrug at Airstrikes
Why do we recoil in horror when a child is abused by an individual, yet so often accept the deaths of children in war as an unfortunate reality?In this thought-provoking episode, Hollie confronts a difficult question that challenges some...