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Dr. Lina Abirafeh : Executive Director of the Arab Institute for Women
Dr. Lina Abirafeh has served as the Executive Director of Arab Institute for Women, AiW since 2015. She is based in New York and Lebanon. Lina brings a strong feminist activist orientation to…
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Masooma Ranalvi: Fighting to End Female Genital Mutilation(FGM) in India
Masooma Ranalvi still recalls the day, at age 7, when she was taken to a dirty apartment in Bhindi Bazaar in Mumbai with the promise of ice cream. The horror of that day…
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Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuses: Resources and Guidelines on Healing
If you are a survivor of childhood sexual abuses, you are most likely fighting a silent and invisible battle throughout your life. You probably never talked about it with anybody and thought…
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Dowry Killings: Why Does It Happen and How Can We Prevent It?
Dowry is a social custom where a man and his family demand assets and money from the bride’s family. Even though dowry is declared illegal in India and other neighboring countries,…
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MeToo: A Movement Truly Helped Women to Overcome Victim Shaming
In October 2018, New York time published how the #MeToo movement brought down 201 powerful men in the United States. The majority of these men had harassed and assaulted women for many…
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Female Genital Mutilation: Facts and Resources
What is Female Genital Mutilation? Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a harmful and brutal practice of partially or completely removing, cutting, sewing up, piercing of external female genitalia as a social or…
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Nadia Murad : Victim of War Crimes to Nobel Peace Prize
Systematic Sexual violence against women has always been used as a strategy of warfare. In 2018, Nadia Murad, a Yazidi women survivor and women rights activist received the Noble Peace Prize. This 25-year-old…
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Child Marriage: Getting Rid of the Burden-The Sooner the Better
Nujood Ali fled her husband’s home at the age of 10, after being beaten regularly by her in-laws and raped by her husband for two months. She showed immense courage by going…
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Fighting Against Sex Crimes
Not long ago, I joined this organization Rape Trauma Services (RTS), a non-profit whose goal is to support those who face sexual abuse and trauma. Through the training RTS provided me, and through the support,…
