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A Mexican woman who reported being harassed multiple times to authorities has died after she was set on fire, causing outrage again over violence against women in Mexico.
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Indian lawmakers have elected an Indigenous tribal woman to the role of the president for the first time in the country’s history.
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Daria Kasatkina, Russia’s top ranked women’s tennis player, has come out as gay in an interview.
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Aminata Touré, a 29-year-old Black woman with refugee parents, has made history as the first Black woman to hold a state government minister position in Germany.
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Pope Francis has appointed three women to the committee that helps oversee the selection of bishops around the world for the first time in the church’s history.
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Alexandra Wong, a 66-year-old veteran Hong Kong activist known affectionately as Grandma Wong, has been sentenced to 32 weeks in prison for taking part in anti-government protests in 2019.
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The Australian Aboriginal flag will permanently replace the New South Wales state flag in flying next to the Australian flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australian authorities have announced.
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A Salvadoran woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after her baby died during a medical emergency.
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Meet Danielle Rezek. The Syrian woman has dreamed of becoming a pilot, just like her father, ever since she was young.
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Sierra Leone’s president says his government has unanimously approved a bill that would decriminalize abortion and overturn the country’s colonial-era abortion law.
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Zara Aleena, a 35-year old British woman and aspiring lawyer, has died after she was attacked while walking home in East London during the early morning of Sunday June 26.
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Authorities in the Philippines have ordered journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s independent news organization, Rappler, to shut down, in another blow to press freedom in the country.