Photos: Brazil’s female sumo wrestlers breaking barriers | Women News
If the phrase “sumo wrestler” calls to mind a hefty Asian man in a loincloth, Valeria and Diana Dall’Olio, a
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Chile’s abortion rights movement faces uphill battle | Women’s Rights News
Santiago, Chile – Siomara Molina stands on the steps of the Chilean National Library on a busy street in the
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International Women’s Day protesters demand gender equality | Women’s Rights News
Demonstrations, conferences and artistic events around the world have marked International Women’s Day, an annual observance established to recognise women
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On Women’s Day, watch these five unsung heroes changing the world | Women News
From the battlefield in Ukraine, to the streets of Peru, to backstage at a Bollywood audition, every day women find
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Syrian women find strength in the aftermath of the earthquake | Women News
A month after devastating earthquakes struck northern Syria, Moufida Ghanem is mourning the loss of a son and the destruction
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This Women’s Day, there is little to celebrate in South Korea | Women
On March 4, recipients of South Korea’s annual “obstacles to gender equality” award were announced at an early International Women’s
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An unexpected friendship: A cross-cultural sisterhood in Sweden | Women
Tyvärr. This single Swedish word, which roughly translates as “regrettably” or “too bad” and always follows bad news, encapsulated Irina
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The Dalit mothers who were forced to become wet nurses | Women
On a sunny afternoon in February 2021, I sat with my great aunt Yellamma under the shade of a neem
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UN says malnutrition in mothers soars in crisis-hit countries | Women News
With 25 percent rise in malnutrition among adolescent girls, women, UNICEF report raises alarm on need to invest in essential
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Young Afghan women train as midwives to serve in remote villages | Women News
In a small village encircled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby she
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