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A program that pays African migrants to leave Israel is breaking up families
The Israeli government offers cash and free flights to African asylum seekers who agree to return home or fly to other African countries — an incentive to get them to leave. The measure is bringing...
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A North Dakota blizzard hits the Standing Rock protest camp hard
Protesters at the Standing Rock Camp in North Dakota spent Sunday evening celebrating: The Army Corps of Engineers said it wouldn't give permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to run under the...
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In South Korea, parents are increasingly saying, 'we hope for a girl'
In South Korea, there’s a new saying: “To have two daughters wins you a gold medal.” But this wasn’t the case a single generation ago, when couples would go to great lengths to conceive a son. A...
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Deadly Turkish school fire reveals the challenges girls face in getting an...
A fire at a Turkish girls dormitory that killed 11 students in late November has cracked open a debate in Turkey about controversial approaches to educating girls in rural areas, and whether the...
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This interpreter is helping get justice for indigenous women raped and...
This month marks two decades since the signing of the Guatemalan peace accords, which ended a 36-year-old civil war.Some 200,000 people were killed in that war, many more tortured and raped. In recent...
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This Eritrean woman found out her husband had abandoned her when she couldn't...
In a one-room apartment in south Tel Aviv, Brkitay Gebru shares a bed with her two sons. On a recent afternoon she was so tired she didn’t bother telling 3-year-old Netanael to stop jumping on the...
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Oklahoma's Native tribes are trying to fill a gap in sex ed left by the...
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, four American Indian teenagers are gathered in a nondescript building along rural Okmulgee, Oklahoma's main street. As the headquarters of the Muscogee Creek Nation,...
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Turkey's fraught history with headscarves
In a café at Istanbul Arel University, a group of friends — secular and religious, Kurdish and Turkish — gather to talk about their country’s changing identity. One topic of discussion among two of the...
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Stark numbers show who gets trolled the most online. See for yourself.
Have you ever been hacked, trolled on social media or experienced other forms of online harassment? If the answer is yes, you share the same experience with almost half of American internet users.But...
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These early female astronomers shattered the 'glass universe'
Looking up at the night sky, we know that a star’s brightness can tell us something about how far away it is, and even what it’s made of. But how do we know that?As it turns out, our system for...
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How to deflect a 'hijab grab' and other lessons from a Muslim black belt
Rana Abdelhamid was just 15, walking to a volunteer job in Queens, New York, when a man came up behind her and tried to yank off her headscarf, or hijab. “I just remember he was taller than me because...
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Germany is taking a harder look at child marriage
It’s just a bus stop in a city in northern Germany.But for some of the migrant women who’ve escaped violent and abusive relationships, it’s also a second birthplace. “The emotional connection to this...
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Prisoner swap deal gets 21 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls released
Jihadist group Boko Haram has released 21 of the more than 200 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls held since April 2014 in a prisoner swap deal with the Nigerian government, local sources said Thursday."As I...
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Three reasons some young women are sticking with Trump
It’s been a tough seven days for Donald Trump since he was heard on tape boasting about using his celebrity to push himself on women. Yet even on Thursday, after new allegations surfaced, some female...
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Here's where 'gaslighting' got its name
We've been exposed to a lot of nastiness during this US presidential campaign. As well as some choice vocabulary.Some of the words we’d rather not repeat, if we can avoid it. Some just seem made up...
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In Mumbai, 'shock and horror' over Trump’s statements about women
Chhavi Sachdev, a reporter based in Mumbai, says many Indians in the city have been horrified by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's lewd comments about kissing and groping women.The...
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Nigeria's #BringBackOurGirls campaign celebrates 21 returnees
Many Nigerians feared the family reunions would never happen.But 21 school girls held for more than two years by the extremists of Boko Haram were reunited with their anguished families Sunday."As you...
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The best and worst countries to be a girl
The international children's rights organization Save the Children recently released their "Girls' Opportunity Index," which rates the countries of the world where it is best and worst to be a girl.The...
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Donald Trump was the man Hillary Clinton needed to win the women's vote
It seems an unlikely paradox: In a country where women outnumber men in all but nine states, the first woman in US history to run for president, as a major party nominee, has struggled to win a strong...
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Pakistan's female cricket star is blazing a trail — but there's still a lot...
I’m an American — and the only thing I knew about cricket until about a week ago was that they take a break for tea in the middle of the match.So when the most famous woman in Pakistani sports agreed...
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