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A record number of Indigenous women are running for office in Brazil in a bid to increase Indigenous representation after four years under far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
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In a landmark ruling, India’s Supreme Court has ruled that marital rape is rape and that everyone has the right to get an abortion up to 24 weeks in a pregnancy, regardless of their marital status.
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Italy has elected its most far-right government since World War II, and far-right politician Giorgia Meloni, is set to become Italy’s first woman prime minister.
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Sex workers in Spain held a protest on Monday Sep. 12 against a new bill that aims to abolish sex work.
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Widespread protests have erupted in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman who died after she was arrested by “morality police” in Tehran over the country’s mandatory hijab law.
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Ecuadorian authorities have found the body of a lawyer who went missing after she was last seen visiting a police training school, sparking public anger and calls to end violence against women.
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Women in Iran are taking to the streets in massive protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after she was arrested by “morality police” for allegedly breaking the country’s mandatory hijab law.
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This week, women took to the streets of Iran, India and Hungary to protest for their rights, calling for justice for Mahsa Amini, who died after she was arrested by Iranian police over her hijab, and teen sisters who were raped and murdered in India, as well as the right to abortion.
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Protests have broken out in Iran after a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the morality police died while in custody.
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Two teenage sisters have been found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in India.
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A woman held up a bank in Lebanon’s capital Beirut with a toy gun and demanded to withdraw her own money from her frozen savings account to pay for her sister’s medical bills, one of the many incidents happening in the country as it experiences a major economic crisis.
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Hungarian women will have to listen to the fetus’ heartbeat before they are allowed to seek an abortion starting Thursday Sep. 15 as part of the government’s new measures to restrict abortion.