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June 13, 2017 | Jihii Jolly | International, Media, Violence against women
Journalists challenge Syrian media to improve gender coverage in war

Milia Eidmouni’s family didn’t want her to be a journalist. They wanted her to choose a more typical career for an educated Syrian woman, such as teaching. But as a feminist, women’s rights defender and human rights campaigner, she pursued her desire to become a working journalist in 2007

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June 11, 2017 | Farha Khalidi | Arts and culture
How Hailee Steinfeld’s “Most Girls” Pushes Back On Toxic Female Competition
“You’re not like most girls,” a boy tells Hailee Steinfeld in the music video for her latest single, “Most Girls.” He tells her this sincerely, but ignorantly; Hailee gets visibly uncomfortable by thi...
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June 08, 2017 | Marija Šajkaš | International, Violence against women
Efforts to stop sex-trafficking focus on hotels

Anneke Lucas survived being trafficked for sex not once, but twice. “I was 9 years old when an elderly English-speaking man took me to the United States in his jet and sex-trafficked me in a luxurious hotel,” says Lucas, an anti-trafficking advocate and the founder of the nonprofit organization Liberation Prison Yoga.

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June 06, 2017 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Economy, Environment
Women at the forefront of renewable energy

In spite of the Trump administration's attacks on the environment, renewable energy is gaining in the market—and women’s leadership is key in the movement away from fossil fuels.

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