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Māori journalist and translator Oriini Kaipara has made history by becoming the first person with a traditional facial tattoo to host primetime news on New Zealand’s national television.
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Here are 11 human rights wins to celebrate in 2021
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Karen, Kathy and Evelyn, three women in El Salvador, have been freed after they were sentenced to 30 years in prison for having abortions after suffering medical emergencies.
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Phạm Đoan Trang, an award-winning Vietnamese journalist and democracy activist, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for “conducting propaganda against the state.”
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Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who last month said she had been sexually assaulted by a former vice premier of China, has denied her comments in a video interview with a Singaporean state-run outlet.
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A COVID-19 press conference in Queensland, Australia, was interrupted when a giant huntsman spider crawled up the leg of the state’s health minister, causing a moment of chaos.
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The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay more than €370,000 ($416,000) to Margarita Gracheva, whose husband kidnapped her and cut off her hands with an axe in 2017.
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Angela Merkel has stepped down as Germany’s chancellor after 16 years.
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Chile’s parliament has narrowly rejected a bill to decriminalize abortions up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
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Honduras has elected its first woman president, Xiomara Castro, a leftist opposition candidate who defeated the conservative National Party that had been in power for 12 years.
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Julie Anne Genter, a New Zealand MP, rode her bicycle to the hospital to give birth on Saturday, Nov. 27.