strong women who inspire us.

Today is International Women’s Day. It’s a day that calls our attention to what it means to advance women’s rights in the workforce, politics, and society. Through our work around the world, we meet strong women every day that inspire us. Women are seeking not only to feed their children but...

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horrific injuries at the hands of own husband

Aisha, who appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine in 2010, was not the last Afghan woman to be so disfigured. A heroin addict was in need of a fix but had no money. So he ordered his wife to sell her jewelry and, when she refused, he hacked off her nose and lips.  Thirty-year-old Sitara,...

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Rocket women helped power India’s mission to Mars

The seven chairmen, including the incumbent, of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)—India’s equivalent of NASA—have all been men, and it is typically male scientists who front the serious press conferences ISRO conducts after satellite launches. But there’s a crucial band of women,...

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Kurdish woman journalist killed covering story on ISIS

Before she was slain by ISIS operatives, Kurdish journalist Dinez Firat covered one of her many stories in the northern Iraqi region as a correspondent for Kurdish news media. Image: Firat news (WNN) Denver, Colorado, U.S., AMERICAS: She was living in Ankara, Turkey and working as a news correspondent...

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World’s shortest woman Jyoti Amge

Amge, 20, is the world's smallest living woman, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. She earned the title on her 18th birthday with a height of 2 feet, 0.6 inches, said the Hollywood Reporter.  Jyoti Amge was born on December 16, 1993 in Nagpur, India. She is an actress, known for American...

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Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi Win Nobel Peace Prize

Malala speaks at the UN in New York on her 16th birthday in 2013. Photograph: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education campaigner shot on school bus in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, has won the 2014 Nobel peace prize. Malala won along with Kailash Satyarthi,...

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ISIS is trading and selling Yazidi Christian women and children

We were sold for $10 or $12. Who could accept that behaviour? Can God accept that? It’s a shame to rape a woman, but when she is raped by 10 men… what is this? They are animals, they are not humans. “We’ve asked our jailers to shoot us dead, to kill us, but we are too valuable for them. They...

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Yazidi women forced into ‘sex trade’

More than 1,000 women and children kidnapped by Isis. Yazidis in Iraq have made an emotional plea for West to help more than 1,000 kidnapped Yazidi women forced into ‘sex trade’. “We’re a minority here and there’s no strong lobby to support us. We ask for support from those governments that care...

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