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Africa

Why Lupita’s Oscar Win Matters

The various awards won by Twelve Years a Slave are hugely significant, but Kenyan Lupita’s Nyong’o’s win for best supporting female could be particularly paradigm-shifting. In 2002, Halle Berry became the fi...
by Christopher Clark
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Asia
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Are Indians Killing Their Tourism Industry? A Rise In Incidences Involving Crimes Against Tourists Suggests So

How safe are western tourists in India? This is a question which does not have a black and white answer – yet ignoring this question also means ignoring the tourism business, and of course, giving credence to India̵...
by Chirag Sutar
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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan Law To Silence Victims Of Honour Killings, Domestic Violence And Forced Marriage

A new law in Afghanistan might allow the perpetrators of domestic violence, honour killings and forced marriages to commit these crimes without any consequences – simply because they are related to the victim. The controv...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Africa

How Female Genital Cutting is Ending

Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful practice involving the forcible removal of a girl’s genitals. In Africa alone, 30 million girls are at risk of being cut over the next decade, and up to 125 million women and girls ...
by Julia Lalla-Maharajh
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Human Rights

Five Milestones For Women’s Rights We Should Achieve In 2015

This year will see the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995 in Beijing, which produced a blueprint for advancing women’s rights.  20 years on, what  still needs to be done for women?
by Sneha Nanavati
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Human Rights

A victory for women’s rights in El Salvador

El Salvador has been making several headlines for their harsh anti-abortion laws with imprisonments of women suffering miscarriages. However, it looks like the small Central American country has arrived at a turning point. On J...
by Isabela Vrba
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More Than 16 Days

Violence Against Women on the Sidewalk

“You’ve got great legs, baby!” a 43-year-old man told Brittney, a 15-year-old girl, as she waited for the subway on her way to school in New York City, New York. Disgusted, she said, “Excuse me, you probably have a daug...
by Natasha Lipman
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Africa

Backwards Is The Future? Women, Tunisia, And Constitutional Debates

Following the Arab Spring, there has been considerable debate on whether women’s rights are under threat from Islamist political parties and the seemingly patriarchal modes of politics they espouse. Despite the very public an...
by Hugh Oberlander
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Video & Photography

WATCH: The world’s gender gaps in 2013

The 2013 World gender gap index, produced by the World Economic Forum, reveals gender inequalities across the world. Out of 136 countries Iceland has received the highest ranking in terms of having the smallest gender gap, fol...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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