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Sexual Liberation To Fashionable Heels: How Women Are Changing North Korea
The emergence of grassroots capitalism in North Korea, through women, provides a cautionary tale for patriarchal societies everywhere: underestimate women at your peril.
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India Still To Be Freed From Shackles Of Inequalities, Poverty: Pinarayi Vijayan
Social and economic inequalities, poverty, failure to ensure women's safety, racial discrimination and threat of religious sectarianism are "shackles" from which India is yet to be liberated, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
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Let's Pay Homage To 3 Million Killed, 2 Lakh Raped By Pak Army In 1971: India At UN
As the United Nations marked International Day of Victims of Genocide on Wednesday, India called for paying homage to the three million people killed and hundreds of thousands of women raped by the Pakistan Army and religious militias in the 1971 Liberation War, describing it the "most horrific episode in human history".
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Change Comes To Islam's Birthplace, And The World Watches Warily
The world's 1.8 billion Muslims look to one country above all others.
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Opinion: Why The Sabarimala Judgment Should Worry Freedom-Loving Liberals
There is, especially to those who care about individual rights, something disturbing about this entire process. The "tradition" that bars many women from entering the temple is not of any great age, but even so, it has settled into the complex of beliefs held by worshippers of the temple's deity, Ayyappa.
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French Newspaper Charges Men More On Women's Day
Male readers of leftwing French daily Liberation were asked to pay 25 percent more for their paper on Thursday, to underscore the gender pay gap on International Women's Day.
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Blood And Fury: Menstrual Activism Sweeps The World
Women are starting to speak up about their periods in a wave of "menstrual activism" which is being compared to the "women's liberation" movement of the 1960s.
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Here's How Women In Saudi Arabia Reacted To News That They'll Finally Be Allowed To Drive
In 1990, Madeha al Ajroush and 46 other women did something revolutionary. The group dismissed their drivers and got behind the wheels of cars in downtown Riyadh. "We just drove the car," she told NPR years later. "It was exhilarating. It was great."
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ISIS Is On The Decline In The Middle East, But Its Influence In Pakistan Is Rising
Even young Pakistani women and educated youth from liberal families have proven susceptible to the lure of the Islamic State's brand of extremism.
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Saudi Jailed For Call To End Male Control Over Women
A Saudi man has been jailed for one year for calling for an end to the Muslim kingdom's guardianship system that gives men wide controls over women, local media said Tuesday.
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Today's Big Release: Parched
After Pink, set in urban India and discussing the tough life of working women, director Leela Yadav brings Parched, a tale set in rural Kutch.
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Pakistani Army Repeating Horrors Of 1971 In Balochistan: Baloch Activist
Asserting that history was repeating in itself, Farzana Majeed Baluch, a Baloch human rights activist, has said that human rights violations committed by Pakistan in Balochistan and the army targeting Baloch women was as bad as the torture and rape of women that took place during the Liberation War of 1971, which eventually led to the creation of a...
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Vrindavan Widows, Outcasts Tie Rakhi To Priests
In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan.
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Japan Lawmaker Says 'Comfort Women' Were 'Prostitutes'
A Japanese lawmaker today said wartime sex slaves forced to work for Japan's Imperial Army were "professional prostitutes", before he was forced to retract the remarks and issue an apology, local media reported.
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Colombians Killed in 1985 Justice Palace Battle Identified
The remains of three Colombian women that vanished in fighting when leftist rebels briefly captured the Justice Palace in 1985 have been identified, the attorney general's office said Tuesday.
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Sexual Liberation To Fashionable Heels: How Women Are Changing North Korea
The emergence of grassroots capitalism in North Korea, through women, provides a cautionary tale for patriarchal societies everywhere: underestimate women at your peril.
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India Still To Be Freed From Shackles Of Inequalities, Poverty: Pinarayi Vijayan
Social and economic inequalities, poverty, failure to ensure women's safety, racial discrimination and threat of religious sectarianism are "shackles" from which India is yet to be liberated, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
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Let's Pay Homage To 3 Million Killed, 2 Lakh Raped By Pak Army In 1971: India At UN
As the United Nations marked International Day of Victims of Genocide on Wednesday, India called for paying homage to the three million people killed and hundreds of thousands of women raped by the Pakistan Army and religious militias in the 1971 Liberation War, describing it the "most horrific episode in human history".
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Change Comes To Islam's Birthplace, And The World Watches Warily
The world's 1.8 billion Muslims look to one country above all others.
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Opinion: Why The Sabarimala Judgment Should Worry Freedom-Loving Liberals
There is, especially to those who care about individual rights, something disturbing about this entire process. The "tradition" that bars many women from entering the temple is not of any great age, but even so, it has settled into the complex of beliefs held by worshippers of the temple's deity, Ayyappa.
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French Newspaper Charges Men More On Women's Day
Male readers of leftwing French daily Liberation were asked to pay 25 percent more for their paper on Thursday, to underscore the gender pay gap on International Women's Day.
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Blood And Fury: Menstrual Activism Sweeps The World
Women are starting to speak up about their periods in a wave of "menstrual activism" which is being compared to the "women's liberation" movement of the 1960s.
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Here's How Women In Saudi Arabia Reacted To News That They'll Finally Be Allowed To Drive
In 1990, Madeha al Ajroush and 46 other women did something revolutionary. The group dismissed their drivers and got behind the wheels of cars in downtown Riyadh. "We just drove the car," she told NPR years later. "It was exhilarating. It was great."
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ISIS Is On The Decline In The Middle East, But Its Influence In Pakistan Is Rising
Even young Pakistani women and educated youth from liberal families have proven susceptible to the lure of the Islamic State's brand of extremism.
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Saudi Jailed For Call To End Male Control Over Women
A Saudi man has been jailed for one year for calling for an end to the Muslim kingdom's guardianship system that gives men wide controls over women, local media said Tuesday.
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Today's Big Release: Parched
After Pink, set in urban India and discussing the tough life of working women, director Leela Yadav brings Parched, a tale set in rural Kutch.
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Pakistani Army Repeating Horrors Of 1971 In Balochistan: Baloch Activist
Asserting that history was repeating in itself, Farzana Majeed Baluch, a Baloch human rights activist, has said that human rights violations committed by Pakistan in Balochistan and the army targeting Baloch women was as bad as the torture and rape of women that took place during the Liberation War of 1971, which eventually led to the creation of a...
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Vrindavan Widows, Outcasts Tie Rakhi To Priests
In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan.
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Japan Lawmaker Says 'Comfort Women' Were 'Prostitutes'
A Japanese lawmaker today said wartime sex slaves forced to work for Japan's Imperial Army were "professional prostitutes", before he was forced to retract the remarks and issue an apology, local media reported.
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Colombians Killed in 1985 Justice Palace Battle Identified
The remains of three Colombian women that vanished in fighting when leftist rebels briefly captured the Justice Palace in 1985 have been identified, the attorney general's office said Tuesday.
