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'You don’t know when they will come for us': Marawi's LBGTQ community says no...
Tanya’s Salon was one of the oldest and most popular salons in Marawi City, in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Patrons considered it a place of beautification and pampering while LGBTQ...
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Despite the risks, holdouts refuse to abandon Ukraine's radiation hotspots
Nina is worried about her potato field.She’s standing in the middle of a two-lane road in the village of Karpylivka, Ukraine, showing me the bugs she’s just pulled off her plants in the field nearby....
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India has a sexual assault problem that only women can fix
India is the most dangerous country for sexual violence against women, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation 2018 survey.The survey, which measures sexual and non-sexual violence, discrimination,...
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Local Nepali government sending a message by paying families that have baby...
On a balmy late afternoon, a baby suddenly wails for milk: 6-month-old Angel is hungry. Sworsoti Karna and Anjali Karna are a grandmother-and-mother team, experts at soothing the little one. Once she’s...
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Scotland tries to combat poverty by providing free menstrual products
Scotland became the first country in the world to give out free sanitary napkins to students this past Friday.Victoria Heaney, who led the charge to provide free sanitary napkins, conducted a survey on...
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When reporting sexual assault, Rohingya women are being lost in translation
The humanitarian crisis at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled to, is also a communication crisis. With an array of Southeast Asian languages spoken in the...
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In Puerto Rico's coffee country, 'We have to motivate the farmers to come to...
There’s a dimly lit convenience store in the mountains of western Puerto Rico where an 82-year-old man sits behind the counter ringing up snacks and sodas.Luis Ruiz, who has watery blue eyes and a...
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Serena Williams’ catsuit controversy evokes the battle over women wearing shorts
At the French Open, Serena Williams wore a custom-made black catsuit. On Aug. 24, the president of the French Tennis Federation said the outfit “wouldn’t be back.” It “went too far,” he continued. It...
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She saved a pregnant woman’s life. Now, she works to make childbirth safer...
Feroza Mushtari shudders as she remembers when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan.She was a teenager living in Kabul when the group gained control there in 1996. One day out of the blue, her parents...
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After surviving an attack on their school in Kabul, these students show that...
On the evening of Aug. 24, 2016, as the sound of explosions and gunfire filled the air on campus at the American University of Afghanistan, freshman Zakira Rasooli had only one thought: What would...
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For these girls in Morocco, a tech camp presents a rare opportunity to pursue...
Most summer days, 14-year-old Manal Taragroum says she would be stuck at home, helping with chores around the house.But not today. That’s because the energetic teenager is one of 20 young girls who has...
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Today, women's clothing in Afghanistan includes far more than the blue burqa
On a hot August day last year, President Donald Trump held a meeting with a group of his top military advisers at Camp David.On the agenda was whether the US should increase its troops in Afghanistan....
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Changing your face to disguise your ethnicity? Maybe, for these Afghan women.
Twenty-five-year-old Zahra is convinced she is not pretty.First, it’s her eyes.“I want to get rid of this extra skin,” she says, pinching the skin above her eyes. “It pains me to even look at it,” she...
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This Afghan filmmaker got her start fighting street harassment with her camera
It takes a lot of courage to speak up in support of women and women’s rights in a male-dominated country like Afghanistan.But that’s exactly what Sahar Fetrat did.At an opening for a new bookstore in...
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This Kyrgyz singer is getting death threats after releasing a music video and...
Singer and student Zere Asylbek wrote a feminist song and produced a video that's provoked ire in many Kyrgyz. They're mad at the clothes she wears in the video — a lacy bra underneath a blazer — and...
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'Transgender women are women,' organizers say after controversy over...
Jane Faye was early in her transition from male to female when she was accosted before entering the women's changing area. It was a Saturday morning, and she was getting ready to step into the pool...
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Things have changed since Anita Hill – sort of
In 1991, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Thomas was nonetheless confirmed. Now, as Brett Kavanaugh faces an allegation of sexual assault, observers are...
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Teen 'boys will be boys': A brief history
Over the past 12 days, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s actions as a high school and college student have been at the center of a public conversation.As accusations of sexual misconduct and even...
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On the Supreme Court, difficult nominations have led to historical injustices
Far from being unusual, the hurried and partisan Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh mirrors several notable examples of similarly politicized confirmations in US history.Those...
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Women’s surfing riding wave towards gender equity
The World Surfing League recently became the first US-based global sporting league to offer equal pay to male and female competitors.In a Facebook post, the league announced that women surfers will...
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