Her World, Her Story

A woman who sells coal in Paraguay, the daughter of a migrant in Argentina, a mother with a blue car in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an immigrant from Indonesia to Sweden.

A migrant striving to hold on to life in Hong Kong, a woman drifting from place to place after losing her husband in Afghanistan, and a market vendor in a floating village in Cambodia.

A woman in Ukraine striving to become an artist, women in India living in a city of widows where those ostracized after their husbands' deaths find refuge, and a Turkish artist dedicated to preserving a vanishing art.

A woman farming seaweed in Tanzania, another teaching in a refugee camp in Syria, and a third making a living from garbage in the Philippines.

A local heroine who is the chief physician of the only hospital serving many regions in Kyrgyzstan, a woman who makes a living with stones in Tanzania and a war victim in Azerbaijan.

A woman in Kazakhstan who has to leave her village and is not allowed to come back, a strong-willed fiber master in Zanzibar and a bride in a traditional wedding in Russia.