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Zakia Khudadadi had been smuggled out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took over Afghanistan so that she could compete at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2021.
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The new laws require women to cover their entire bodies, including their faces, in public to prevent "temptation.”
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Many of the chat rooms are based on schools, with many victims being girls in middle and high schools.
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30-year-old Noor Salman started training as way of self-defense.
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Seven-year-old Heaven Awot was raped and killed by her mother’s landlord.
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Tomasdottir was previously the head of Iceland's Chamber of Commerce and the CEO of a global non-profit that works to promote diversity in the workplace.
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The hospital told Theresa Xu it was not possible to proceed without a marriage certificate, and doctors instead encouraged her to have babies while she was still young.
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37-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra is the daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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23-year-old Chidimma Adetshina was born in South Africa to a father from Nigeria and a mother from Mozambique.
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The 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered inside a government-run medical college and hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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This Iranian woman was shot and paralyzed by the police for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory hijab law.
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B-Girl Talash said she did what she did because “The world has forgotten about Afghan women”.