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Female ‘hotshot’ firefighters want action on reproductive health risks

A system "built for men" exposes women to chemicals that have been linked to miscarriage, birth defects and slowed fetal growth.

Lucy Sherriff, August 11, 2021 Read the full article

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‘Water Warriors’: The US Women Banding Together to Fight for Water Justice

Women have been deeply embedded in the movement for clean water and sanitation for decades, which has become even more pressing amid the pandemic.

Jessica Washington, April 20, 2021 Read the full article

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Revealed: US citizen newborns sent to Mexico under Trump-era border ban

Migrant women were sent back to Mexico within days of giving birth and without an opportunity to collect birth certificates for their U.S. citizen newborns. They were “expelled” under a policy Trump officials put in place during the pandemic, which the Biden administration has not yet rescinded.

Tanvi Misra, February 5, 2021 Read the full article

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‘I Want To Go Home’: Pandemic Exposes Exploitative Conditions Filipina Domestic Workers Face

Filipina women interviewed across Asia, Europe and the Middle East lost jobs or had salaries cut since the pandemic — others were subjected to physical abuse.

Corinne Redfern, January 27, 2021 Read the full article

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‘Whatever It Takes’: How Black Women Fought to Mobilize America’s Voters

Democrats have long pointed to Black voters, more specifically, Black women, as a crucial voting bloc. But this November, successfully flipping the southern, Republican-led state of Georgia to the Democrats for the first time in 28 years has drawn attention to the organizational power of Black women.

By Jessica Washington and Tiffany Arnold , November 12, 2020 Read the full article

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Mothers of Black Americans Killed by Police Speak Out: ‘Nothing’s Changed’

George Floyd’s death has sparked a worldwide anti-racism movement, huge anti-police brutality protests across America, and a national conversation that is reckoning with the US history of racism.

Khushbu Shah, June 11, 2020 Read the full article

Catherine Healy, the national coordinator of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, stands in front of supplies at the collective's office in Wellington, New Zealand.

‘Don’t Have to Fight for Pennies’: New Zealand Safety Net Helps Sex Workers in Lockdown

Anna Louie Sussman , April 27, 2020 Read the full article

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‘You Are Beautiful’: the Kenyan Beauty Parlour Serving Female Heroin Users

Angela Oketch and Louise Donovan, March 18, 2020 Read the full article

The Living Hell of Young Girls Enslaved in Bangladesh’s Brothels

Sold by traffickers, trapped for years and raped many times a day … this is the life of tens of thousands of underage girls in Bangladesh.

Corinne Redfern, July 6, 2019 Read the full article

Femicide The Rallying Cry For Families Of Girls Killed In Guatemalan Orphanage Fire

Lawyers claim the disaster that killed 41 girls at the San José Pinula children’s shelter reflects wider state failings on the protection of women in Guatemala.

Rossalyn Warren, May 4, 2017 Read the full article

‘Fake news’ fuelled civil war in Burundi. Now it’s being used again

Exiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza.

Rossalyn Warren, March 1, 2017 Read the full article

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