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Changemaker of the Week
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Changemaker of the Week: Ellen Chilemba & Tiwale

18 year old Ellen Chilemba’s inspiring entrepreneurship rose to the spotlight after Humans of New York (HONY) featured her street portrait on their Facebook page. HONY fans were directed to Tiwale, a program founded by Chilem...
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Changemaker of the Week

Changemaker of the Week: Valens Ntamushobora & the Women of Rwanda

Starting with an idea and mobilising his own skills though a youth leadership and innovation program, the Sprout e-course, Valens created the Lusa Program initiative (LP). The Lusa Program provides Rwandan women with access to ...
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Human Rights

The Logic Of Our Sex Laws, Part 2: Moving Forward

Previously: The Logic of Our Sex Laws, Part 1: An Overview The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), part of the International Prostitutes Collective, has been campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution, and for...
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Women Taking Action

Have You Made Any #FeministNewYearResolutions?

A week into the new year and already reconsidering those #GymTime and #paleodiet hashtags? Why not take some inspiration from the less conventional resolutions of some feminists around the world? Here’s our pick of some o...
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Photography

Women in the Afghan National Police Force {Pictures}

As the training of the Afghan National Police Force continues, statistics show that women currently make up only 9% of Afghan police recruits, even though women represent half the population of Afghanistan. Many male officers...
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Human Rights

In my humble opinion, on Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Why do they hate us’

I too can sit from my ivory tower and tell the world that the Middle East is a dandy place to live in as a woman, but I have no right to claim that a woman only 100 miles away having her body parts ripped out in the name of god...
by Ola Abou-Khsaiwan
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Health

Gender Based Violence: The scourge of emergencies

Even the most well resourced nation is almost always caught off guard by an emergency. An emergency can cause a humanitarian crisis which leads to a total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from conflict. In many ...
by Jermain Ndhlovu
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Human Rights

WATCH: 11-Year-Old Yemeni Girl “would rather die than get married at this age”

A video uploaded to YouTube of 11 year old Nada Al-Ahdal from Yemen has been doing the rounds the last few days. In the video Nada talks about how she has to run away from home in order to avoid being married off by her parents...
by Natasha Lipman
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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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