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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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A women's health center for Syrian refugees is helping Jordanian women, too
Children chase each other through corridors as their mothers catch up on the latest news. Around them, nurses and counselors lead patients into beige-walled rooms adorned with posters about domestic...
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Staunchly Catholic Peru sees a surge in gender activism and progressive policies
Seeing a rise in the visibility of LGBT and women's rights movements in their country, Peruvian conservatives responded with a "March for Heterosexual Pride."To counter a ministry of education...
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The Women's March on Washington will have sister marches in over 75 countries
The Women’s March on Washington will take to the streets of DC this weekend to call on the American people to “send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world,...
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At the inauguration, millennial women share why they believe Donald Trump...
While many young women are traveling to the capital this weekend to participate in Saturday’s Women’s March, there are also those in town to celebrate the inauguration of President Donald Trump. I...
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PHOTOS: It's official. The Women's March has swept the globe
As tens, even hundreds, of thousands of women pour into Washington, DC, for the Women's March on Washington, thousand of sister marches around the world have already taken place.From Australia to...
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Watch live: 500,000 expected to attend Women's March on Washington
Washington, DC, is expecting 500,000 people to turn up today to participate in today's Women's March on Washington.The event will start with speeches before progressing to a march along the National...
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Young women made their voices heard at the Women's March in Washington
The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, women and their allies gathered in cities all over the world to protest his words, actions, and the potential...
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PHOTOS: From DC to New York, Chicago to LA, nearly 2 million rally for women
Organizers of the DC March on Washington expected a couple hundred thousand people would turn out for the women's rights, anti-Donald Trump protest the day after his inauguration. Instead, they got...
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Photos: Compare the crowd at Women's March and Trump's inauguration
It's nearly impossible to get agreeable crowd estimates. In fact, "official" crowd counts became so contentious in 1995 after the Million Man March (the National Park Service estimated only 400,000...
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What's next for the Women's March? Organizer Linda Sarsour explains.
More than 2 million people worldwide took to the streets over the weekend to demand women's rights. Now that everyone turned out, what's next? How do you turn a march into a movement?The Women's March...
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PHOTOS: Here are some of our favorite signs from the Women's March on Washington
There was a large and diverse crowd protesting the new Trump administration on Saturday during the Women's March in Washington, DC. And it wasn't just in Washington, protesters took to the streets...
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Portraits of the resistance: Illustrating the Women's March on Washington
Millions of people around the world took to the streets this weekend to proclaim that women's rights are human rights.The official Women's March platform states its principles as: ending violence...
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Dutch government establishes an international fund to ensure women have...
The Netherlands this week called for an international fund to support health centers offering abortion services in developing countries, after US President Donald Trump ordered a halt to US government...
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In New York's Lunar New Year parade, women are breaking barriers as lion dancers
On the fourth floor of a shabby walk-up fronting one of the busiest streets in New York's Chinatown, lions are dancing.Okay, it’s lion dancing.The New York Chinese Freemasons Athletic Club (more on...
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What the Mexico City rule means to women around the world
One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to restrict access to abortion.On Monday, he reinstated the so-called "Mexico City Policy," which forbids the US from funding any group that provides...
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These women, many Muslim, are leading the resistance against Trump's...
Women and girls stand to be particularly affected by President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning refugees, halting all travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries, and indefinitely...
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Fighting the STEM gender gap with stories of trailblazing female scientists
For writer and illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky, the idea to profile 50 pioneering female scientists in her recent book, “Women in Science,” was spurred by conversations with educator friends. As they...
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Photos: Life for the internally displaced women of Congo
Research shows that women and children are overrepresented in internally displaced people (IDP) camps in the conflict zones all around the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo is no exception.The...
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