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Around The World, Discover Your True self, Share Your Story

The Role of the Society in Crafting Our Body Image

There are a lot of things that led to my developing body image issues as a teenager. A lot of this was teasings and comments from a few school friends,…

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September 29, 2020
Male Engagement (You Too)

A Step by Step Guide for Men to Promote Gender Equality

  Engaging Men as Allies Complete elimination of systematic gender discrimination needs the active involvement of people of all genders. Violence against women, child marriage, dowry, FGM, and systemic inequality…

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August 30, 2018
Share Your Story

Force in Interdependence

  Battling with my Identity and Trying to prove my Worth I was born and raised in Nigeria. I grew up wondering about my identity and, more importantly, my self-worth.…

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December 3, 2021
Climate Justice, Mental Health

Impact Of Climate Change On Women’s Mental Health

    Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Climate change is not just changing our weather; its consequences are a daily reality for millions of…

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February 22, 2022
Around The World, Reproductive Rights and Justice

The United Kingdom’s Decision to Cut Foreign Aid is having Catastrophic Effects on Women’s Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health.

The continued cut to foreign aid from the UK government has proved to be catastrophic for many countries in crisis and the NGOs providing support to them. Yemen, often considered…

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October 16, 2021
Share Your Story, Violence Against Women and Girls

When Sexual Harassment is Disguised As a Compliment

An Internship in Egypt! Two years ago, I was a keen Arabic learner. That summer, I landed an internship in Egypt. Without hesitation, I hopped on the plane to fly…

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October 29, 2020
Systemic Gendered Discrimination

Sinjini Sengupta: Founder of LightHouse- Using Her Experience of Work and Life to Transform Lives

An alumna of Indian Statistical Institute, Sinjini Sengupta is an erstwhile Actuary turned an award-winning writer, columnist, public speaker and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of LIghthouse where she…

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August 15, 2021
Around The World

The one Erdoğan Fears: the Kurdish and Feminist Journalist Öznur Değer

In front of me, a 23-year-old woman. With unflappable conviction, she proudly claims her Kurdish nationality and fervently defends her rights, her language, her culture, her origins in short. This woman…

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December 22, 2021
  • Öznur Değer, the feminist and Kurdish journalist is talking during the interview in a coffee in Ankara on 9th, November 2021
    Around The World

    The one Erdoğan Fears: the Kurdish and Feminist Journalist Öznur Değer

    Margaux Seigneur / December 22, 2021

    In front of me, a 23-year-old woman. With unflappable conviction, she proudly claims her Kurdish nationality and fervently defends her rights, her language, her culture, her origins in short. This woman is Öznur Değer, a Kurdish and feminist journalist working for the newspaper JinNews. She embodies everything Erdoğan and his government fear and despise the most. And…

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  • Safe and legal abortions are under attack in Italy's Molise
    Reproductive Rights and Justice

    Safe and Legal Abortions are Under Attack in Italy’s Region of Molise

    Anna Myers / February 26, 2022

      As of January 2022, the Italian region of Molise employs only one doctor who does not identify as a “conscientious objector.” In this context, the term refers to someone who refuses to perform abortions on the grounds of moral, personal or religious beliefs, and simply put, this means that women in Molise are currently being…

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  • Impact Of Climate Change On Women Mental Health
    Climate Justice,  Mental Health

    Impact Of Climate Change On Women’s Mental Health

    Chitrita Sengupta Chaki / February 22, 2022

        Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Climate change is not just changing our weather; its consequences are a daily reality for millions of people around the world. The consequences of climate change on exposed biological subjects, as well as on vulnerable societies, are a concern for the entire scientific…

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  • Climate Change and Women
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    Climate Change and Women: Time to focus on vulnerabilities

    Ekaterina Zemskova / February 6, 2022

      Climate change affects everyone in one way or another. Natural disasters, extreme heat, new patterns of disease, increased risk of hunger, lack of access to clean drinking water — all these consequences humanity has already experienced, and it is scary to wait for the future. Yet even in an issue such as climate change, women…

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  • Gendered Impacts of Climate Displacement
    Climate Justice

    Gendered Impacts of Climate Displacement

    Abi Richards / January 29, 2022

     International and governmental responses to any crisis, such as the pandemic, have previously excluded women and dismissed the gendered impacts. This article examines the gendered impacts of climate change and displacement. It comprises four main sections. I) The first section examines the extent of the climate crisis today and how this disproportionately affects developing countries. II)…

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  • Motherhood, Suicide and Forced Adoption: My Family’s Story
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    Motherhood, Suicide and Forced Adoption: My Family’s Story

    Sarah Mui / January 22, 2022

    “Does Mommy abuse me?” I was about ten years old and had been fighting this sharp pain of conflict in my chest for some time. It consisted of what felt like butterflies on fire, clamoring to escape but with no known exit. I didn’t look like what abused children were supposed to look like. I had…

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  • 5 Ways You Can Support Women
    Male Engagement (You Too)

    5 Ways You Can Support Women

    Daniel Sherwin / January 15, 2022

    We all have opportunities each day to empower the women in our lives. But, when you want your reach to extend beyond those that you already know, it’s time to get out into your community. Inequality exists, and not just in the workplace. Here are five ways that women and men alike can help level the…

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  • MENSTRUATION MYTHS and Facts
    Menstruation Equity,  Mental Health

    Myths and Facts About Menstruation

    Chitrita Sengupta Chaki / December 12, 2021

    Menstruation taboos and stigma, which restrict girls and women from leading a normal life or participating in family and school,  are severely debilitating and oppressive for women. Stigma combined with lack of access to sanitary products and proper knowledge on managing periods put girls and women at a disadvantage and are contraindicative to achieving gender equality.…

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  • lower tampon taxes and free sanitary products
    Menstruation Equity

    Paid period leaves, lower tampon taxes and free sanitary products: progress on women’s needs around the world

    Greta Maggi / December 12, 2021

    Although positive developments have been made, commitments both from governments and the private sector around the world are necessary to stop considering topics such as menstruations as taboos. Paid period leaves, different taxes on tampons in every country, and a list of places where governments provide free menstrual products, let’s dive into this!   Paid period…

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  • Surrounded by placards and feminist activists, a woman delivers a speech during the International Day Against Violence Against Women on 25 November in Kizilay
    Around The World,  Violence Against Women and Girls

    November 25th: Turkish Women’s Blood Flows, Resistance Spreads

    Margaux Seigneur / December 10, 2021

    On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a taste of struggle and a taste of equality is imprinted on every screaming lip! We are in Kizilay, in the hyper center of Ankara, Turkey. Women of all ages are singing to the rhythm of the violations of their rights. They screech in the…

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