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'Normalised but not normal': Nigerian women call out gropers and catcallers

Sexual harassment has long been rife in Nigeria’s bustling markets. Now women are mobilising in protest

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Police arrest 19 people over FGM gang attacks on women in Uganda

Critics say police should have acted earlier on reports of forceful mutilation of more than 400 women in a month by armed groups

Published: 8:36 AM

'People will end up dying': Trump's cuts devastate clinics in Zambia

Teen pregnancies are soaring and HIV care has stalled in rural communities hit by ‘global gag’ funding cuts

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One in three UN workers say they have been sexually harassed in past two years

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres says ‘we still have a long way to go before we are able to openly discuss sexual harassment’

Published: 11:41 PM

Destroy ‘period huts’ or forget state support: Nepal moves to end practice

After the custom of consigning menstruating women to outdoor sheds claimed three more lives, a new system of penalties offers hope of change

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Mother and two boys suffocate in Nepal's latest 'period hut' tragedy

Practice of banishing women to small outbuildings during periods claims further victims despite country declaring practice illegal

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Mother of student held over Ortega protest in global plea for help

Family of activist Amaya Eva Coppens, 24, appeal for help to ‘stop the repression’ of Nicaraguan government

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'It's a very big torture': the children growing up in hiding in Dubai

With sex outside marriage punishable by jail, migrant workers who become pregnant are often forced to keep their babies locked away

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Inside Mother Camp: the woman tackling Afghanistan's drug problem

Laila Haidari risks her life to run the country’s only private rehabilitation centre, helping hundreds of addicts a year

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The world in 2018: how much do you know? – quiz

The year began with the Oxfam scandal and ended with a withering verdict on the food we eat. What do you remember?

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The woman breaking Bolivia's culture of silence on rape

Brisa De Angulo was 17 when she founded A Breeze of Hope to support other child survivors of sexual abuse – and help change laws on rape

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'I knew my life could be in danger': the girl on a mission to change Iraq – video

Rowan, a 15-year-old from Babylon, defies the Iraqi government to speak out passionately on social injustice and women’s rights

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'I'm here to work, not for sex': battling violence against women in Rwanda

A culture of victim-blaming and high levels of sexual and physical abuse are being tackled with tough laws as well as dedicated centres to help survivors

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'A gift to feminists': how Trump's 'gag rule' inspired a worldwide movement

Born as a response to Trump’s aid cuts, SheDecides has blossomed into a vast movement, with women across the globe joining its rallying cry

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'A gift from God': the Rohingya refugees adopting orphaned babies

The sexual violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military could have led to a surge in abandoned newborns – but it never came

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Child sex trafficking rife in Colombia's picturesque Cartagena

The historic city is cracking down on an industry that targets children and young women from poor neighbourhoods

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Kenya lifts ban on Marie Stopes abortion services after warning lives are at risk

Clinics reopen in country where backstreet abortions kill seven women a day and hospitalise 320

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Girl, 10, dies after female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone

Renewed calls for country to end practice after girl bleeds to death following mass initiation into secret society

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