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Acid attack victims reverse expectations on the runway
It's a fashion show to make a difference.The charity, ActionAid, organizes events to spread awareness about the hundreds of acid attacks that happen around the world each year.Each of the 15 models...
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Why people stay friends with their rapists
Since The New York Times reported about how Harvey Weinstein has been paying off accusations of sexual harassment for decades, more and more women have been coming forward to report abuse, in some...
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We asked Puerto Ricans about their future plans. Many want to stay and rebuild.
As some Puerto Ricans fill flights to Miami, we asked a handful of people in San Juan their thoughts about leaving their homes for the mainland US. About 3.4 million people live in Puerto Rico, and...
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In Syria, all girls want is safety and school
Syria was once home to a robust, highly educated middle class. Books were an important part of the culture, and literacy was highly prized, for girls as well as boys. But the Syria's grinding six-year...
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As a woman in media, sexual harassment was the norm. I was told to keep it to...
The sharp, buzzing noise woke me up around 3 a.m. I rolled over in bed and grabbed my BlackBerry. As a journalist living in Dubai at a time when the Arab Spring was igniting all over the Middle East, a...
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So many women are saying 'me too.' Editors weigh in about how to move the...
Actor and director Asia Argento is fleeing her home country of Italy as a result of the “climate of tension” and “victim blaming” that has been lobbed at her there after she went public with rape...
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Sexual harassment at work is a global problem. Now, the world is finally...
The recent allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein have sparked a global conversation about the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace. We devoted all of Friday's episode of PRI's The...
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Russians look at the Harvey Weinstein scandal and say, 'What's the big deal?'
People all over the world have responded to the Harvey Weinstein scandal with a mix of shock and dismay. Not so in Russia.Foreign Policy's Moscow correspondent, Amie Ferris-Rotman, writes that people...
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In some affluent circles in Egypt, the hijab and burkini just won't do
Nada Kabil thought her friends had checked in advance about whether it was OK to wear a hijab at the ACE Club, a country club for expatriates in Cairo’s upscale Maadi district. So, she was taken aback...
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EU institutions face scrutiny for how they deal with sexual assault
The Harvey Weinstein scandal has sparked conversations about sexual harassment around the globe — including in European Parliament.Several women spoke up during a debate Wednesday about sexual...
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Barcelona’s mayor is on a quest to 'feminize' politics amid independence debate
At dusk on Oct. 17, a helicopter hovers above a candle-dotted landscape at the convergence of two of Barcelona’s central arteries. A pair of bespectacled women in their 70s, their furrowed brows...
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Meet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion
It was a cool, fall morning in southern Texas, a day not so different from any other in the small border city of McAllen. Jane Doe arrived at the abortion clinic early, with little fanfare, as if she...
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Why some Catalans say independence is a 'feminist struggle'
Barcelona awoke on Saturday, Oct. 28, to gray skies and the usual stream of glassy-eyed tourists scuttling about on Segways. Locals sat at corner cafes, chatting conspiratorially over espressos,...
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Meet Ali Cobby Eckermann, the poet who writes about being Native in Australia
When Ali Cobby Eckermann was a teenager, she ran away to the desert in central Australia. “It was either running away to the desert or going to prison because I was starting to get into a lot of...
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Kenyan health providers call Trump's global gag rule 'a death sentence' for...
"We've been given a death sentence." That's how one Kenyan health clinic views President Donald Trump's ban on US federal funding for international groups that provide, support or discuss abortions....
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Trump's 'global gag rule on steroids' threatens Congolese clinics
"Planification Familiale c'est la cle dela prosperite de votre famille." The message, which translated from French means “family planning is the key to your family's prosperity,” was printed in blue,...
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The dangers of reporting on femicide in Argentina
BuzzFeed's Karla Zabludovsky recently wrote an in-depth piece about the #NiUnaMenos grassroots movement to expose femicide in Argentina. Ni una menos translates to "Not one [woman] less." Zabludovsky...
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Grassroots efforts in Tunisia to advance women’s rights
In a building tucked away on a dusty street in Tunis’s Lafayette neighborhood, a classroom full of a dozen young Tunisian women listen to lectures amid bursts of laughter on a spring day earlier this...
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23 women have been murdered in these Ugandan towns since May. Police blame...
Editor's note: This story contains material that some may find disturbing, including sexual violence and murder.Around 9 p.m. on the last night of her life, Rose Nakimuli closed up her small hair salon...
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South Korea makes a bold move with a former ‘comfort woman’ at its state...
Donald Trump is the first US president in 25 years to go to South Korea on a state visit. In honor of the occasion, South Korea went all out to welcome Trump at Tuesday's state dinner.During these...
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