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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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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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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…
