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Is one selfie app company changing beauty standards in China?
More than half of the selfies uploaded on Chinese social media are believed to have been edited using apps made by just one company.Meitu, which translates to “beautiful picture,” has been around for...
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Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti
Corinne Joachim Sanon sits in the front yard of the Port-au-Prince home she grew up in with her mother, brother and grandparents.It’s been almost completely rebuilt since the earthquake hit on Jan. 12,...
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Some French women say 'puritanism' in American feminism threatens sexual...
Victimizing, androphobic, totalitarian and puritanical.This is how a number of prominent women in France see American feminism.While clamors of “Oprah 2020” echo around the United States following...
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Ahed Tamimi: A new symbol of Palestinian resistance?
A 16-year-old Palestinian girl is looking at the possibility of a very long prison sentence in an Israeli jail. But what sets Ahed Tamimi apart from hundreds of other Palestinian youth caught up in the...
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Some French men are lamenting 'the end of love as we know it'
Being followed by a strange man in the street is few women's idea of romance. But for some French men, the pursuit of the opposite sex on a sidewalk or metro is acceptable, even manly. That's...
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Deneuve sends a dated message of empowerment
The open letter in the French newspaper Le Monde last week said the #MeToo movement amounted to sexual puritanism and was fueled by "a hatred of men." It was signed by 100 French women — a collection...
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Women veterans want their voices heard in the #MeToo movement
Watching the large numbers of women who've come forward to speak out about their experiences of being sexually harassed and assaulted in the workplace, some women veterans say it hasn't been as easy...
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‘My daughter demands more’: The men fighting child marriage in Lebanon
Roughly 20 men are packed into a local family center in West Bekaa, Lebanon, an hour and a half drive from Beirut. They sit in rows, on lime green chairs, and politely crane their necks to face whoever...
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Marchers: ‘I want to stand with my sisters’
Hundreds of thousands marched in more than 300 cites across the world on Saturday in the second Women's March.In New York, thousands crammed the streets carrying signs about the Trump administration,...
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In the 45 years since Roe v. Wade, states have passed 1,193 abortion...
Monday marks 45 years since the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade. The 7-2 decision guarantees that women have a constitutional right to choose to have an abortion.But...
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For some Christians, being 'pro-life' isn’t just about being against abortion
Donald Trump addressed the 45th March for Life in Washington last Friday via satellite. When his face appeared on the giant video screen on the National Mall, there was a hearty cheer from the crowd....
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The abortion debate in Poland heats up again with newly proposed bill
Last week across Poland, thousands of women took to the streets in the Déjà Vu Strajk Kobiet, or, Déjà Vu of the 2016 Polish Women's Strike.In October 2016, Polish women stood in the pouring rain and...
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Indigenous rights activists come out for the Women’s March in Phoenix
At least 22,000 people came out to the Women’s March in Phoenix, Arizona, this past weekend.The crowd included people wearing pink "pussy hats," of course. But it also included a group of indigenous...
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Millions say #MeToo. But not everyone is heard equally.
In the three months since actress Alyssa Milano first tweeted about #MeToo, there have been nearly 6.5 million tweets sharing the hashtag. But not everyone’s #MeToo story gets the same amount of...
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He argues for rolling back abortion rights in the US
This week marks 45 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. For 33 of those 45 years, Clarke Forsythe has worked with Americans United for Life in the courts and state...
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A mother and daughter who marched are ‘tentatively hopeful’ about feminist...
On Saturday, Jan. 20, Women’s Marches took place all around the world, with participant numbers ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands. My daughter, Olivia, a college sophomore who is studying...
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When health care comes with harassment: Photographing abortion clinic protests
This week marks 45 years since the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in the Roe v. Wade case. Though it’s the law of the land in the United States, family planning clinics face onslaughts of...
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Madeleine Albright: 'Many of the best diplomats are women'
Not that long ago, doors were firmly shut to women who aspired to be international diplomats. A woman wasn't permitted to join the US diplomatic corps until 1922. In Britain, the appointment of female...
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Gold medalist Dominique Moceanu warned us 10 years ago about abuse in USA...
“I just signed your death warrant.”That's what a Michigan judge said on Wednesday, when Larry Nassar, the former doctor for the USA Gymnastics team, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for...
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Adoptees return to their Chinese village to help friends who were left behind
For Bingjie Turner and Abigail Anderson, returning to China has been bittersweet.Both wanted to go back since leaving their orphanage, the Xining Children's Home, 14 years ago. Turner wished to visit...
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