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Myanmar’s army is tormenting Muslims with a brutal rape campaign
For Fatima, a 13-year-old girl from Myanmar’s western marshlands, the new year began with a grueling escape. She spent the first days of 2017 on the run, slogging through rice fields in the dark.With...
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The future of global women's rights under Trump? 'It could be devastating.'
The request from Donald Trump's transition team set off alarm bells within the small world of groups that promote global women's rights. Trump’s team wanted details about the US State Department’s...
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#21. @realDonaldTrump How will you keep your promise to support working...
Mr. President, How will you fulfill your campaign promise to support working parents with parental leave and affordable day care?In September, Donald Trump took to the stage at a suburban Pennsylvania...
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Decades before they choose a career, girls think being 'really, really smart'...
There’s an old, insidious stereotype that men are brainier than women — that somehow they’re more dazzling, more genius. And that notion can have wide-ranging effects on women’s career decisions: One...
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Russian protesters take to the streets over measure to decriminalize domestic...
Dozens of Russian activists braved snow Sunday to protest against a law signed by President Vladimir Putin that has softened penalties for those who commit domestic violence.Some 80 people including...
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#29. @realDonaldTrump How will you continue to increase the presence of women...
Mr. President, how will you continue to increase the presence of women in national security efforts? We know that when women are included in policing, given a seat at peace negotiations, and allowed to...
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The future of the International Criminal Court is in question, and that's bad...
She made up her mind when she saw the baby.There’s a sadness to Amal — but it isn’t weakness. It’s like a firm, concrete melancholy. It’s hard to imagine her running away from anything. But here’s what...
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These women run a cafe by day, and risk their lives to report on their...
As a journalist, it was Aline’s job to report on her country and her president. But she didn’t know how to do her job any more without getting killed.Her president is a power-hungry megalomaniac,...
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President Trump, do you believe increasing access to contraceptives will...
#40. @realDonaldTrump Do you believe increasing access to contraceptives will improve health, reduce poverty? #100Days100QsFamily planning is good for women. That's science. Access to contraceptives...
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How tech companies are trying to combat trafficking
Sex trafficking and human slavery are certainly nothing new, but the internet has created a lawless space for predators to buy and sell people. Today, more than 150,000 escort ads are posted in the US...
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Inside the Russian police force answering thousands of calls for help from...
Yana Savchuk could have been saved. But when the 36-year-old Russian hairdresser called police in November saying that her partner was going to kill her, the officers who arrived cast off her cries for...
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Why do so few women work (for pay) in Jordan?
Women have come a long way in many places, but not as far as they’d like or as would be good for the societies in which they live.Even in the United States, women still make 80 cents for every dollar...
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In Russia, activists push to enact more protections against domestic violence
One more 14-hour-long working day was coming to its end. Yelena Naumova, a 44-year-old taxi driver in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, was giving a lift to her last passenger.A young woman in her...
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At least 12,000 people killed by domestic violence every year? Russia's not...
Violence against women, as an acceptable practice in some cultures, is hardly a new story to me. For years, I’ve reported in countries across the Middle East and Asia, where women face deep-seated...
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Canadian schools and Girl Guides are nixing their trips to the US
President Donald Trump's first executive order restricting travel to the US by citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations caused chaos at US airports and was eventually suspended by the...
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This Jordanian started her country's first self-defense studio for women
It's 5:30 in the afternoon in Amman, and the gloves are on. At the female-only gym called SheFighter, it's time to practice those punches, jabs and kicks.The studio is on the second floor of an...
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#BringBackOurGirls was a mistake
The global #BringBackOurGirls campaign is a great example of how a noble cause can backfire.The abduction of over 200 girls from their school dorm in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram militants in April...
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This Kabul restaurant boosts the dreams of Afghan women
Across Women's Lives reaches out to women on the ground to include their voice in our global coverage. Afghanistan is one of the world's hardest places to be a woman in public. Here, our Afghan...
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Child brides are a little-known, but very real, problem in America today
When she was 10, Safia Mahjebin started skipping school. She used to ride the New York City subways, aimlessly. "I just love riding the train," she says. "You ride from one end to the other, and then...
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In a rare move, 200 march for abortion rights in Angola
About 200 demonstrators protested under heavy police surveillance in the Angolan capital Luanda on Saturday against a draft law criminalizing all abortions.The proposed new penal code has been sharply...
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