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A court in Tokyo has ordered a medical university to pay compensation to 13 women for gender-based discrimination after it secretly made the entrance exam harder for women.
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Anna Qabale Duba, a Kenyan nurse who campaigns against child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), has been crowned the world’s best nurse for her work.
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A local penis-like plant in Cambodia is at risk of extinction after a video of three woman playing with the plant went viral.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed the country’s first woman prime minister in over 30 years.
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Israeli police have assaulted mourners attending the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American journalist who was shot dead covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.
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A Salvadoran woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after she suffered a miscarriage following a medical emergency.
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Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera, has been shot and killed while covering a raid by Israeli forces in the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
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The Taliban has ordered all women in Afghanistan to wear burqas covering themselves from head-to-toe when going out in public.
Activism
Sofia Sapega, a Russian law student and the girlfriend of Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, has been sentenced to six years in prison by a Belarus court.
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A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four men in Uttar Pradesh, India, only to be allegedly raped again by a police officer to whom she reported the attack.
Activism
Meet doctor Abeer Derar, a Sudanese woman doctor who has been attending the anti-coup protests every week to help treat protesters on the frontlines.
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One of Panama’s smallest Indigenous communities has elected a woman leader for the first time ever.