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Gender-Based Violence
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Sexual Violence In Conflict Zones: When Will It End?

Throughout the reporting of international conflict, debate and discussions frequently revolve solely around issues of military actions, foreign spending, and often a clash of ideologies. As a result, an essential element to th...
by Nora Turriago
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Educating Women

WATCH: The Girl Who Demanded School

When she was 12, Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: she would undergo the Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. If she had run away Ntaiya’s father would have been s...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights

The Logic of Our Sex Laws, Part 1: An Overview

Slag, skag-head, hooker, ho, trafficked, trapped, bullied, abused… The visions created by the mention of prostitution – and the levels of compassion or contempt they illicit – can vary wildly from one person to the n...
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More Than 16 Days

Violence Against Women in Mexico

Violence against women is unfortunately prevalent all over the world and occurs both in the home and without, is both illegal and yet often not prosecuted, and always leaves permanent scars on the societies in which these atroc...
by Natasha Lipman
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‘Gender-Based Violence’ Mapping in Cambodia

The Open Institute NGO has launched a crowdsourced gender-based violence mapping tool in Cambodia to promote and protect women rights. Notably, gender-based violence has remained a significant issue in Cambodia. A UN repor...
by Sopheap Chak
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Human Rights
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‘An Extensive Human Rights Abuse That The EU Cannot Afford To Overlook’ – Estimating The Financial Cost Of Violence Against Women

A new survey published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in the first week of March revealed one in three women in Europe have suffered some form of violence, sexual or physical, in her lifetime. The rep...
by Isabella Grotto
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Women Taking Action

#FreeTheNipple: does the nipple need to be freed?

The #FreeTheNipple movement resurged last week, with women taking to social media in protest when an Icelandic teen became the victim of online trolls after she announced an upcoming “Free the Nipple” day at her school. 17...
by Tessa Evans
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Gender-Based Violence

India: Heart of Darkness

Alas! We have lost our heart – not to love; but to misogyny, bigotry, and every other form of degraded thinking that an abjectly insecure patriarchal system drills into us day in day out. It is, after all, this very societal ...
by Preetam Sengupta
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Special Features

Violence Against Women

“Written declaration on the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence   The European Parliament, – having regard to Rule 123 of its Rules of Procedure, A....
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