Thirty young Afghani women performed in an orchestra at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Afghanistan’s challenges in 2017 will not be new ones, but those that have lingered from many years of war and violence. They involve armed conflict with the Taliban and related issues of terrorism, attacks…
Fumigation against the Zika-carrying mosquito in Guatemala.
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Zika is not gender neutral: women’s rights are at stake.
Moroccan women walking in capital Rabat.
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The recent burqa ban in Morocco highlights tensions between radical Salafists and a moderate Islamic government that has taken steps to further women’s rights.
Kenyans marching in solidarity with Americans and women worldwide to protest the sexist statements of president Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
The grave of women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony is covered with ‘I Voted’ stickers.
REUTERS/Adam Fenster
Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.
Protesters rally against the proposed budget cuts in Rio de Janeiro in November 2016.
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A proposed budget freeze would hurt everyone, but history shows women take the hardest hit.
Did we hold Clinton to an unreasonably high standard?
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
A sinister Hillary Clinton dominated conservative media, but also appeared in mainstream journalism. Why?
A disempowering judgment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone should not blind us to how local activists still made use of its symbolic power.
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How are we to understand why people in different parts of the world continue to demand and participate in transitional justice institutions and processes in spite of the shortcomings?
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Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail was toxic. His victory means women will suffer the fallout.
Boys’ club.
EPA/Atef Safadi
There have been efforts to include women in West Bank politics, but they’ve fallen short. Activists are trying to change things.
Protesters take to the streets on ‘Black Monday’ in Warsaw on October 3.
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A popular protest forced the government back down on its proposed ban, but Poland still has savagely restrictive abortion laws.
Voting in Burundi, where 36% of women do not agree that democracy is the best form of government.
Mike Hutchings/Reuters
If women aren’t given their full rights, they’re less likely to believe in democratic institutions.
Turkey has the highest number of cesarean sections among OECD countries.
Umit Bektas/Reuters
Turkey’s high cesarean rates cannot be tackled by top-down restrictive laws.
Clinton speaks at NATO in 2012.
REUTERS/Yves Herman
The author of a new book on Clinton’s global impact sees two factors behind her strong foreign policy stance.
Masked sex workers lead a march to mark International Sex Workers’ Rights Day.
Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
Sex workers in South Africa are all potential criminals due to the country’s regressive laws. But their status may change soon, making South Africa the first African country to decriminalise sex work.
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Belfast court inflicts three-month suspended jail term for acquiring abortion pills online in first criminal prosecution for a decade.
Does gender make a difference on a jury?
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Do women in the Oval Office or the courtroom make a genuine difference? Research from English juries suggest they do.
PA/Haydn West
Women are more likely to claim in-work benefits so they’re more likely to have their movement restricted by the UK’s EU renegotiation.
You may never have heard of this heroine of emancipation.
Wikipedia
She didn’t even believe in equality, but this Victorian woman’s personal struggle against her husband became a matter of national importance.
The way a country regards its female police officers is crucial in efforts to protect women against violence.
Reuters
In Indonesia, a culture that views policewomen as lesser officers than their male counterpart still prevails.