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Young Nigerian women migrating to Europe are prime targets for sex traffickers
Joy walks along an overgrown path winding through a village on the rural outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. She points out a few shops that have closed and a big house on an overgrown plot owned by somebody...
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This Canadian day care center re-creates 'the spirit of a large family' for...
These mothers have gone through a breakup. They don’t particularly enjoy being around couples who are happily married or seeing how other children’s fathers pick up their babies after work. And in...
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In India's Dawoodi Bohra community, there's a growing debate about FGM
In a small, dimly lit room at the back of a decrepit building near the Bhendi Bazaar in Mumbai, India, Masooma Ranalvi was told to lie down on the floor and spread her legs. She was only 7 years old at...
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Ukraine's first female police officers won't be posing for selfies anymore....
It's a busy Tuesday evening in the trendy neighborhood of Podil, not far from the city center of Kiev. It's hot out but people are enjoying a breeze as they stroll through a mostly pedestrian-friendly...
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#MeToo movement finds an unlikely champion in Wall Street with the new...
If you were worried that the #MeToo movement might fade away, fear not. It has been carved into one of the most immovable objects in human history.Legal boilerplate.And not just any boilerplate. But...
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How #MeToo in the Australian media has spread to other industries
A social media campaign is underway in Australia to boycott comedian and The Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s upcoming tour in the country. The hashtag, #BoycottTrevorNoahInOz, refers to a joke he made a...
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With Dirty Girl coffee, this entrepreneur strives to make life better for...
Jane Cavarozzi buzzes around the farmers market in Athens, Ohio, like she’s had too much caffeine. Fitting, perhaps, for the founder of a small coffee company.On a brisk, sunny day, she alternates...
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Facing a groundswell of support for legal abortion, Argentina’s Catholic...
Leer en español.Abortion is completely legal only in three places in Latin America: Cuba legalized the practice in 1965, followed by Mexico City in 2007 and Uruguay in 2012.Argentina, like the majority...
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The red cloak of 'The Handmaid's Tale' is becoming a symbol for reproductive...
A new symbol of women’s rights is turning up at protests from Latin America to the British Isles and across the US. The scarlet cloak and white bonnet outfit from “The Handmaid’s Tale” is being worn by...
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Refugee women in Greece are moving forward. But many men around them are not.
Soheila, an Afghan refugee who asked that only her first name be used for privacy reasons, stands in front of a small group of refugee women holding several forms of birth control in their hands....
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Ukrainian folk punk band DakhaBrakha sings a decidedly feminist message
When you go to hear the Ukrainian band, DakhaBrakha, the first thing you notice is their outfits.The group's three female vocalists, Iryna Kovalenko, Olena Tsybulska and Nina Garanetska, wear towering...
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Early marriage figures for Iraq are startling. Child advocates worry it could...
For young women like Farah Ismail, marriage was tantamount to a financial transaction.“My father is a contractor who went bankrupt,” explained 22-year-old Ismail, who is from Baghdad. “We went to live...
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Why Argentinian activists aren’t stepping down after the Senate voted against...
The Argentine Senate voted against a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy on Thursday, even after the reform passed through the Argentine House and opinion polls showed that it...
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This woman bodybuilder in Myanmar is using Facebook to advocate for harsher...
Facebook is Myanmar’s main digital communication platform. In recent months, UN investigators, US senators and Myanmar civil society leaders have blamed Facebook for fueling ethnic tension and violence...
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'Give her a voice': Activists say women with disabilities in India need...
When a young woman with cerebral palsy, among other disabilities, reported being raped by three neighbors four years ago in an Indian village, the villagers were unhappy with the way it was...
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It took a cyclone for some Tongan women to get reproductive health care for...
When one of the worst cyclones in Tonga's history swept through the Pacific island nation, flattening homes, churches, and even the nation’s Parliament Building this year, Katherine Mafi sprung into...
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Saudi women can drive, but are their voices being heard?
Earlier this summer, Saudi Arabia lifted the decades-long ban on women’s driving. The move is part of a series of reforms that the country has been implementing. In April the kingdom loosened male...
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In Ghana, gender equality and economics clash
Like most nations around the world, economics plays a major role in how Ghanaian women are treated in their personal relationships and at work. There are other factors at play, too — including the...
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This sex trafficking survivor is moving on — by learning how to code
When Catie Hart first met the man who would become her trafficker outside of a nightclub in San Francisco, she was impressed by his mature, professorial appearance. Hart, then 18, had just moved from...
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In Japan, working mothers battle overwork culture
Kumi Matsumoto has a problem. She has a full-time job. But she’s Japanese and working full-time in Japan can mean something different than in other places, like the US.“I think in Japan, working...
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