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Visiting museums while growing up, Zolzoya Bakthuyag, a 34-year-old lawyer, always wondered why the places that depicted the history of her country always exhibited men’s photos and paintings so ...
Archaeologists in Mongolia have found the remains of two ancient women warriors, whose skeletal remains indicate that they were well practiced in archery and horseback riding. These two women lived ...
Nomin Chinbat, the Mongolian minister of culture and chair of the ICAPP Women’s Wing, speaks at the ICAPP meeting on Aug. 5, 2023. Credit: Mongolian People’s Party The seventh annual meeting of the ...
Bolor Ganbold was once Mongolia’s first female cadet; now she is the country’s first female general. She speaks about her journey and the role of women in Mongolia’s military. In March, Mongolian ...
Women have been powering ahead in universities and the workforce in Mongolia, but traditional expectations of large families are overbalancing the country's creaking ...
EVERETT — Kathleen Stratton Zunkel got an e-mail in August from a new friend in Mongolia. She had met Battsetseg “Baagii” Shagdar while traveling last January to the Asian nation for a ...
ALBANY -- Uranjargal Dovdonpurev is going home to Mongolia, the final leg of a remarkable journey of recovery. It took a village of hospital staff, volunteer therapists, financial donors and ...
ALBANY -- The community is rallying around Uranjargal Dovdonpurev, the brain-injured college student from Mongolia who is known as Urna . She will be a focal point of this year's Festival of Trees ...
Gerelee Odonchimed was 23 the first time she said the word vagina. It was 2011 and she had recently joined a new women's rights group in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. For their initial project ...
Located in the Asakusa district, Sensoji is Tokyo’s most famous Buddhist temple, and undoubtedly deserves a spot on the itinerary of any first-time visitor to the city. It’s particularly popular with ...