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Young Women in India Are Done Surrendering Their Rights
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3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Scotland Offers Free Sanitary Products, Women in Tech, and Decriminalizing Abortion
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Single Women Face Housing Discrimination, Women’s Month in South Africa, and Baby Changing Spaces in Men’s Restrooms
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3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe Election, Global Wildfires, and Youth Voter Registration on the Rise
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Syrian Women Bake Bread, Activism Through Cake, and American Arrested in Vietnam
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Palestinians Plan Bigger Protests, New Climate Doc, Feminist Favela
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Lesbian Visibility Day, Nicaragua Uprising, Gaza Friday of Rebellious Youth
Three Years on: the Women Leaders who Took Charge in the Wake of the Nepal Earthquakes
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: More Women in Gaza Protests, Puerto Rico Blackout, South Sudan’s Farmers Innovate
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Thai New Year & Women’s Rights, Indian Village Fights Femicide with Trees
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Linda Brown Dies and Leaves Powerful Legacy, Brazilian Sports Reporters Fight Sexual Harassment, La Borinqueña to the Rescue
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Extra Pads for Female Inmates, African Continental Free Trade Agreement, “Dancing Queer”
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Marielle Franco, Indian Women Farmers March for Land Rights, South African Teen Invents Fire-Resistant Shack
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Quilombo Claims Land Rights, SOS from Indonesia Palm Plantation, Rwanda Leads in Female Political Representation
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somaliland Fatwa Bans FGM, Spain’s First Black Female MP, 25% of Sri Lankan Local Election Candidates Are Female
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Somalia Drought, Busting Menstruation Myths in India, Female Afro-Brazilian Drummers Break Gender Barrier
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cape Town Water Crisis, Rohingya Repatriation, Honduran Women March
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Refugees Champion Girls’ Education, Indian Women Farmers Claim Land Rights, Indigenous Women Occupy Washington State Capitol
Human Rights Work in Pakistan Under Threat
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Frontier Midwives”, Blackouts in Malawi, Mekong Review
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Vietnam Recovers from Typhoon Damrey, LGBTQ Rights in Guatemala, South Africa’s Black Beekeepers
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Resisting Bayou Bridge Pipeline, Ending Child Marriage in Ghana, Pushing Women’s Rights in Kyrgyzstan
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ugandan Students Fight Early Marriage, No Fireworks in New Delhi, Refugees and New Yorkers Dine Together
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Famine Averted, Saudi Women Drive, Monitor Deforestation with an App
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Biometric Voter Registration, Beekeeping Amidst Kenyan Drought, Mayan Weavers Fight Exclusion
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingyas Flee, Sierra Leone Mudslide Survivors, Liberia’s Women’s Rights Movement
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Niger’s “Husband Schools”, Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti, Chile Relaxes Abortion Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Kenya Election, Nepal Bans Menstrual Exile, CO2 & Fish Food
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Jordan’s ‘Marry the Rapist’ Law, Farmer Suicides in India and a Saudi Women’s Music Video
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Karate Cops in India, Young Farmers in the U.S., Pedal Power in Africa
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate, Sugarcane, & Hantavirus in Brazil, African Women Fight Fistula, Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Urban Farms, Delhi’s New Toilet App, Honduras’s Child Marriage Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: “Nasty Women” Edition
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Deadly Heatwaves, Niger’s Water Crisis, and Raising Menstruation Awareness in Nepal
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cyclone Hits Bangladesh, South Africans Protest Violence Against Women, and Mexico’s First Indigenous Woman to Run for President
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Indigenous Radio Show on Women’s Rights, Protest Camp in West Bank, Amman to Work with Youth & Refugees to Boost Economy
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: 82 Chibok Girls Freed, Zika Emergency Is Over, & Renewables in the Philippines
Fighting rape laws in Jordan and Lebanon
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Fighting Sexual Harassment in Uganda, East Africa Food Crisis, Vietnam’s Feminist Rappers
3 Things You May Have Missed: Vietnamese Villagers Fight for Land Rights, Aspiring Female Carmaker in Sudan, Going to School on the US-Mexico Border
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Chibok Girls Still Missing, Closed Cable Cars, Malala Yousafazi
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa Protests, Women in Pakistan Reclaim Public Spaces, and Marches Continue in Venezuela
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Nepal Displaces Quake Victims, Protests for Guatemalan Girls, and New Zealand River Becomes a Person
3 Things You May Have Missed: IWD Protests, Pruitt & Climate, and Somalia Declares National Disaster
ActionAid USA Statement on International Women’s Strike
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Alternative Rite of Passage in Kenya, Haiti’s New President, and Pakistan’s First Female Bomb Squad Member
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia’s President Returns, India’s #IWillGoOut March, and Women in Egypt Take the Wheel
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia State of Emergency, Obama Administration Sends $500m to Climate Fund, Indian Anti-Trafficking Activists Win Award
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Eucalyptus Land Grabs in Brazil, Pakistan’s Women’s Safety App, Syrian Artists Preserve History
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Ebola Vaccine, Acid Attack Survivors, Political Stalemate in the Gambia
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Aleppo Evacuation, US Secretary of State, Afghanistan’s First Female Rapper
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Women Climb Kilimanjaro, Gambia’s New President, Afghan Female Cyclist
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: #NoDAPL, Karate Grannies, Myanmar
Vietnamese women contribute 110 million hours of unpaid work each day
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: South Africa, Guatemalan Refugees & Malala Yousafzai
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Haiti Cholera Prevention, Damascus Rally & Boko Haram
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Hurricane Matthew, Climate Change & Pakistan’s First Female Truck Driver
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Air Pollution, India Acid Attacks & Drought in Southern Africa
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