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8 Mar
Heroes are not born in a day. Heroes are made through the value they give and the lives they impact. On this International Women's Day, we celebrate the unsung heroes who keep our streets clean and our roads free of debris.
8 Mar
Journalist turned activist, Tekkal told us about her origins and the plight of Yazidi women forced to flee from Iraq into Iraqi Kurdistan with the rise of the Islamic State Group in 2014.
29 Feb
Filmmaker Nausheen Khan's Land of My Dreams recounts the 2019 Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Khan captures the resilience and powerful patriotism of the women at the forefront of the movement, while exploring her own Muslim identity.1
14 Feb
Infertility affects one in six women in Germany. However, access to reproductive medicine is not available to all. The center-left government has said it wants to change the law, but experts are not optimistic.
10 Feb
We look at reactions from the conservative US papers over a special report that raises questions about Joe Biden's “mental acuity” after a series of memory lapses. We also look at reactions after Volodymyr Zelensky's military shakeup, including the departure of his popular Army Chief Valery Zaluzhny.
28 Jan
The need to rethink our history or her-story, rather. Annette Young talks to journalist and author, Annabelle Hirsch, who has corrected our not-so-perfect 20/20 rear vision by writing a book entitled "A History of Women in 101 Objects."
27 Jan
Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, woman's rights have been subject to far-reaching suppression, including a ban on female participation in sport. While some female athletes continue to bravely practice their sport inside the country, many others have fled.
27 Jan
They are barred from education beyond sixth grade, including university, public spaces like parks, and most jobs. They must take a male chaperone with them on journeys of more than 72 kilometers (45 miles) and follow a dress code.
20 Jan
There's a clear correlation between the pay gap between men and women, and the birth of the first child, say statisticians.
17 Dec
Women who fled violence in Sudan's West Darfur have described being raped by armed fighters wearing RSF military uniforms, or robes and turbans commonly worn by Arab militiamen during ethnically targeted attacks on the city of El Geneina.
17 Dec
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday likened restrictions the Taliban had placed on women in Afghanistan to the treatment of Black people under apartheid in a lecture in South Africa organised by Nelson Mandela's foundation.
10 Dec
Female crash test dummy SET50F, and her male counterpart SET50M, were presented to Swedish journalists for the first time. The dummies were previously presented at an international road safety conference and attracted a great deal of interest and attention.

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When Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, many locals protested vehemently and were forced to flee. But some joined the Ukrainian army to fight for the liberation of the peninsula.