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Four women from history who changed the world
For International Women's Day on March 8 and for Women's History Month, we remember Turkey's Nakiye Elgün; Chavela Vargas, a Costa Rican who made her home in Mexico; Doña Luz Jiménez, also of Mexico,...
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Micropixie expresses alienation of immigrant experience with music, sci-fi
Micropixie is an alien. She comes to Earth and is reincarnated as a human called Single Beige Female. The United Nations invites her to speak. The visit is captured in a short, animated video.“I was...
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Four women from history who changed the world
For International Women's Day on March 8 and for Women's History Month, we remember Turkey's Nakiye Elgün; Chavela Vargas, a Costa Rican who made her home in Mexico; Doña Luz Jiménez, also of Mexico,...
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Mothers and babies lack basic needs in Greek refugee camps
The first real shelter that Nadereh Shahbazi and her family slept in when they arrived in Greece was a tent pitched under a piece of red, corrugated iron that shielded them from the relentless Athens,...
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Young migrants and refugees in Greece wanted to be heard. So they started...
Mahdia Hosseini, 28, and Fatima Sedaghat, 16, sit elbow-to-elbow at the corner of a long, wooden table, their heads nearly touching. They’re editing an article about the importance of setting goals for...
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Yemeni women activists escape war with the help of a global, underground network
Azal held her breath and hoped the burqa she was wearing would be enough to evade detection at the nearly two dozen checkpoints that lay ahead. If everything went according to plan, she would soon be...
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Meet the ‘abortion aunts’ of Berlin who help Polish women terminate unwanted...
In 2014, German filmmaker Sarah Diehl’s phone beeped. She had a message on Facebook from a Polish woman she didn’t know. Would Diehl help her get an abortion in Germany? The woman had seen Diehl’s 2008...
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Musician Maria Beraldo rebels against Brazil’s far-right leader through song
Maria Beraldo has the word “Trouble” emblazoned in bold black letters on her bright red leggings. For this Brazilian lesbian singer-songwriter, speaking openly about political issues is just part of...
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South Korea's sex doll industry stirs controversy with 'life-size' imports
Hidden in the depths of a warehouse near Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport, a one-room office is crammed with messy cubicles and stacks of paperwork. It looks like any other office, except for the...
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Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they...
Wearing green bandannas and dousing police in pink glitter, Mexican women on Aug. 16 staged a furious protest in Mexico City after a 17-year-old girl reported being raped by four police officers...
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These Chilean women joined thousands suing for discriminatory health...
If you’re a woman or over 60 in Chile, you have to pay two to three times more for your health insurance. At least, when it comes to private health care. Older people pay more, too. And if you have a...
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How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS
On a recent Wednesday, Noam Shuster-Eliassi strolled around the tiny village in Israel where she grew up, Neve Shalom or "Oasis of Peace," wishing goodbye to her neighbors. The Israeli comedian was...
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Indian women scientists' lunar mission a 'giant leap for womankind'
The Indian Space Research Organization is speeding toward history on Friday as its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, is expected to touch down near the moon’s south pole.If successful,...
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Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook
If you're trying to get pregnant, you may have turned to an ovulation- or period-tracking app for help. Millions of women around the world use them for a variety of reasons. But what happens to the...
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USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
Omer Azizi knows what it’s like to be stuck in a squalid tent with only a United Nations-issued ID tag confirming his existence. He fled Afghanistan’s Taliban tucked in his mother’s arms, and spent his...
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Jewish and Arab women unite to defy Bedouin voter suppression in Israeli...
On Israeli election day, scores of women volunteers crisscrossed the dusty roads of Israel's southern Negev desert, using their own cars and gas, to bring hundreds of Bedouin women from remote villages...
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Climate change forced Nepal women into trafficking. Now, 'Kung Fu' nuns are...
In 2015, when an earthquake hit Nepal, killing 9,000 people, women started to disappear. The survivors, who thought themselves lucky, soon found themselves without much choice, but to trust the...
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Florida teen girls step up to translate Indigenous Mayan languages
It can be hard to find a truly quiet place in the Lake Worth, Florida-based Guatemalan-Maya Center. Just inside one door, case workers and other staff answer phones and talk clients through paperwork,...
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In Québec, teachers return to school under new religious symbols ban
Students and teachers in Québec have returned to school for the first time since a law banned teachers and public employees in positions of “authority” from wearing religious symbols — this means no...
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Trudeau's 'because it's 2015' feminist moment is over. Will women support him...
Gender equity is a big issue in Canada’s upcoming election, in part because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made feminism a cornerstone of his first campaign. Back then, when a reporter at a press...
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