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In France, #MeToo protests force a rock star who killed his girlfriend to...
The #MeToo movement continues to resonate around the world, and France is no exception. There was a remarkable development there this month.A notorious rock singer was pressured into canceling the...
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'For people like you, there is no law'
A few months ago Baner Morales went to the bank. He saw a couple acquaintances, said hi, made small talk and cashed his check. Later he learned that rumors were spreading about him.One of the employees...
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Trans women in Turkey celebrate Pride despite government opposition
In Istanbul, rainbow flags fill the air, and the streets are packed with around a thousand protesters who are singing and dancing — with glitter on their faces. The street is small and cramped, but the...
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Women activists take to the streets of Kampala to demand more police action
“Rose, Emily, Beatrice, Juliet ...” the long list of murdered women kept the audience of 300 people captive as it was being read out loud through the speakers. Some cried and some screamed in anger,...
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Once the go-to place for surrogacy, India tightens control over its baby...
Outside of a maternity ward, a young man and woman are bent over a phone. A few minutes ago, a nurse beckoned them over and ushered them in through a closed door. They came back out smiling. On the...
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Reactions after US tries to weaken UN breastfeeding measure: Breastfeeding is...
During spring negotiations at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the US delegation threatened Ecuador and other countries with punitive trade measures if they didn't water down language in a...
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This Indigenous tribe in Colombia is run solely by women
For years, the Wayuu tribe in La Guajira, a remote area in northernmost Colombia, was run by a male chieftain. But 13 years ago, male elders decided to appoint a woman as its leader. After the success...
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In Paraguay, fighting for women’s rights means fighting the past
When a 14-year-old Paraguayan girl died in childbirth in March, people flooded the streets.The 14-year-old had been raped and denied an abortion. Three years ago, a similar story made headlines in...
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Brazil’s domestic workers get help with app
Creuza Maria Oliveira was just shy of 10 years old when her father passed away. And like many young, black girls from low-income families in Brazil back then, she began working as a maid. She lived...
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Spain’s majority-female cabinet embodies women’s global rise to power
Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the purview of woman-friendly Nordic countries and highly progressive...
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Paraguay’s #MeToo: 'He likes you, so he will rape you.'
It took a long time for Andrea Valobra to realize something basic about her culture. She grew up knowing that women were expected to do certain duties that men didn’t have to do, like cleaning and...
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Armenian women helped oust an autocrat. But they’re still being left out of...
This past spring, as Armenia erupted in protests that would eventually oust the country’s longtime leader, women took to the streets in droves. Within days, their ranks swelled to numbers unheard of in...
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After four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine 'women do better' than men...
Giulnara Asanova and her husband remember when they decided to leave Crimea. "We sat down at the table and decided what to do," she says, speaking Russian through a translator. "We decided to save our...
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This Indian composer's first hit was a song about Boroline. Now she's an...
Composer Sawan Dutta had scored the music for two Bollywood movies. After meetings with movie executives, long nights in the studio, these two projects would be her most high-profile work yet. And...
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How #MeToo changed this year's Running of the Bulls
Asun Lasaosa wanted to wear black to this year’s Running of the Bulls, Spain’s famed bullfighting festival locally known as San Fermín and brought to international prominence by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926...
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Joan Baez reflects on these 'ghastly' times
The 1960s was a turbulent decade in American history. There were political assassinations, the US was embroiled in the Vietnam War and marchers for civil rights occupied the country's streets. One of...
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Tens of thousands of married women in Uganda are secretly undergoing 'the cut'
Gladys Chemtai, 27, says she felt relief after undergoing the "cut" recently.That's because the procedure, better known as female genital mutilation (FGM), now gives her standing in her village of...
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A Zanzibar 'divorce advocate' says marriage is making women sick
“Circulate each toe,” Ayda Abdallah said softly in Swahili while sitting cross-legged on her green yoga mat. “One by one, count to five and then circulate in the other direction.” It’s a Wednesday...
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Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport
Thousands of fans will gather in Otsu, Japan, on Monday to watch a sumo match, part of an annual summer tour. Normally, the mayor would give a welcome speech from inside the ring. But that can’t happen...
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Child labor continues to be a pressing problem in Nigeria. Girls are...
Hadiza Musa, 14, carried a bucket of plastic sachets filled with chilled water toward a commuter bus.It's her job.“Every day, I stand here by the roadside, come rain, come shine, trying to earn money...
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