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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.
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Meet Mira Tazari. The 20-year-old is currently the youngest race car inspector in Jordan and one of the few woman scrutineers in the Kingdom.
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Stella Creasy, a UK MP, had brought her three-month-old son to parliament in a sling and led a debate.
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Magdalena Andersson, Sweden’s first woman prime minister, has resigned, just hours after she was elected by the country’s parliament.
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Pakistan has passed a new anti-rape law that will create special fast track courts to try rape trials within four months and toughen sentences.
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Michelle Wu has been sworn in as Boston’s first woman and Asian-American mayor on Tuesday Nov. 16.
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Meet Jaha Dukureh, a 31-year-old women’s rights activist and anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigner, who is hoping to run for president of the Gambia.
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When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, spoke live on Facebook about changes to the country’s COVID-19 response, a voice popped up saying “Mummy?”
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The case of an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant after she was raped by her step-grandfather has sparked outrage in Bolivia over the church’s intervention in stopping her from getting an abortion.
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Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has spoken out about how she was sexually assaulted by a former vice premier of China.
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Protests have broken out across Poland after a 30-year-old woman died after she was denied an abortion due to the country’s strict abortion laws.