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Argentina’s president Alberto Fernández has finally presented a draft bill to legalize abortion to Congress after saying he would do so in March.
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New Zealand police have added a hijab to its official uniform for the first time.
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Maia Sandu, a 48-year-old economist who went to Harvard, was elected as Moldova’s first woman president on Monday Nov. 16. Sandu, who supports closer ties with the European Union, won 57.7 percent of the votes, beating her male opponent, Igor Dodon, the incumbent president who had the open backing o
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Police in Cancún, Mexico, have caused outrage after they opened fire during a protest women held against femicide on Monday evening, sparking further protests against police brutality as well as gender-violence in the following days.
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People are criticizing Australian prime minister Scott Morrison after he interrupted a woman MP while she was answering a question about the culture for women in politics.
Activism
Nasrin Sotoudeh, one of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, has been temporarily released, according to the judiciary’s news agency.
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Alfred Acenas, a 21-year-old aspiring photographer in Tumauini, Isabela province in the Philippines, has gone viral after impressing people on Facebook with his unique DIY home photoshoots, where he uses everyday objects as props for fashion-forward shoots.
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New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has appointed a Māori woman as the country’s foreign minster for the first time in history.
Activism
Thousands of women have taken to the streets across Poland for days in a row following a ruling that bans abortion for almost all cases.
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“Well, this is Iceland.”
Women
Tshego Pule, 28, was reportedly eight-months pregnant when she was murdered and found hanging from a tree near Johanessburg, South Africa.
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The law making child abuse illegal comes after Romina Ashrafi, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly beheaded by her father with a farming sickle.