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Bahrain activist sentenced to year in prison for ripping up photo of the king
This week an appeals court in Bahrain upheld the decision to imprison an activitst for ripping up a picture of the king. Zainab Al-Khawaja is a prominent human rights activist in Bahrain who has a...
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Meet the Indian women trying to take down 'caste apartheid'
Last week, grisly news emerged of the deaths of two Dalit children in India: An infant and toddler were burned alive in an arson attack in Faridabad, a city near Delhi. Their father, Jitender Kumar,...
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When the South African government says it can't afford free education, this...
Mapaseka Setlhodi sits in a coffee shop not far from the University of Cape Town campus, looking frail and exhausted. Two days earlier, Mapaseka was part of a group of students that rushed the gates of...
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She was attacked. That won't stop her.
Surrounded by people she trusts, Reshma is not shy. And as her brother points out, half her face, the right side, is still beautiful. Oh, but the other half. A horizontal scar below her nose slides to...
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Here are three women blazing a trail in the red-hot mezcal industry
From Hong Kong to New York to London, liquor fans are hot for mezcal. It’s a Mexican agave spirit similar to tequila, yet stronger and often smokier. At trendy spots like the Devil’s Acre bar in San...
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My daughter is my daughter due to China’s One-Child policy
I adopted Maya in June of 1997, when she was nine months old. Three days after she was born in a rural area of Jiangsu province, she was abandoned in one of the 14 farming villages are known...
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A transgender woman in Aceh, Indonesia gathers strength as new anti-gay sex...
Indonesia has been called the smiling face of Islam for its moderate religious bent. But for Echa, an LGBT activist in the northern Aceh province, that smile can be deceiving.New regulations in Aceh...
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This is not my mother's sari
I was 3 when I got my first sari. It was dark green, and instead of the usual 18 feet long by four feet wide, this sari was sized to reach my waist. My mum would put it on me on special occasions and I...
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Music was the path to financial independence for this Indian woman
Tritha Sinha is a woman who's always known exactly what she wants. "I always wanted to be free and not depend on my father for pocket money or eventually my boyfriends or brother and that sort of...
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Gloria Steinem's road is still filled with optimism
Gloria Steinem’s lifelong road trip began in the car with her nomadic father, making a home anywhere and never settling down. Her love of travel and exploration continued into adulthood, as a writer, a...
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When you're a single woman in the Emirates, but you still want a child
In a spacious villa in a corner of Dubai, Reem Abdullah Rashid plays contentedly in a small tent. She’s five.“This is my secret tent. You can whisper anything in mommy’s ear — it’s a secret tent,” she...
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From Black Lives Matter, activists for India's discriminated Dalit learn...
Thery were once called Untouchables. There are an estimated 260 million of them across the world and some 100 million women in India. Discrimination against the Dalits remains deep-rooted in India and...
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Can Orthodox Jewish women be rabbis?
Jewish women in the US have been getting ordained as rabbis going back to the 1970s. But that's not the case for Orthodox Jewish women. Everyone knows that Orthodox women can’t be rabbis, or so the...
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Callie Crossley: Women in the military are still fighting the battle against...
I googled Veterans Day images curious to see what pictures would turn up. Predictably, there were a lot of flags. And dozens of red, white, and blue backdrops with pictures of soldiers in...
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From open fire to open mic: Comic and war vet Isaura Ramirez makes the...
When Iraq war veteran Isaura Ramirez retired after 13 years in the Army, she found herself battling a new sort of enemy: depression. The former captain says a 15-month deployment in Iraq left her...
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Before China's one-child policy was dropped, some women had babies in secret
Four months ago, my husband and I gave birth to our second child, a sweet baby boy. When I walk with him outside, holding onto my 3-year-old daughter’s hand, the neighborhood aunties run over. They...
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#WhatObamaShouldKnow about women in Malaysia
“Selamat Datang, Mr. President!” As a Malaysian, I would like to welcome President Barack Obama, who is making his second visit to Malaysia in less than seven months. While there, he should notice a...
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For every hate tweet this woman receives, she'll donate $1 to charity
There's a lot of hate online. A prominent Muslim woman in Australia can tell you about that.Susan Carland is an academic who often appears on Australian TV wearing her hijab. She's also married to a...
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Where's the outrage over mass rape in war-torn South Sudan?
In recent mouths, numerous reports have confirmed the staggering level of mass rape in South Sudan, Africa's newest nation.The United Nations, for example, accuses the South Sudanese army of gang rape...
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Brazil's shocking violence against women, in five charts
Brazil has a serious problem with violence against women. These five infographics show just how bad that problem is.All the data used here are from a new report by Mapa da Violencia, a nonprofit group...
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