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The Last Resort: An Interview With an Underground Provider of Abortion Medication

by Robin Marty | RHRealityCheck For years, she’s been reading their emails. Desperate, scared, broke women write to her, wanting to terminate a pregnancy without turning to sharp instruments, unknown drugs, or old wives’ tales. The woman interviewed below, who once wrote an … Continue reading →

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The “UAE 94″ Case, Reports of Systematic Torture

The show CASES, produced by Aly Sleem and hosted by Farah Atoui, deals with human rights violations regardless of any political affiliation/agenda. We stand by oppressed people everywhere so we aim to tackle their cases professionally from both humanitarian and … Continue reading →

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Sex and Saudi Approach to Marrying Filipinos

by Dr Abdul Al Lily | SexandBeyondSA I surveyed 42 Saudi male undergraduates, asking them to write down if they would consider marrying Filipinos. Four said that they would consider marrying Filipinos. Two of these four said that she must be Muslim. … Continue reading →

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Heterosexual Awareness Month Is Back With An Outrageous Claim

By Christin Berger | LiberalAmerica Yesterday I did a story about a horrible image that the Heterosexual Awareness Month (HAM) Facebook page had posted. When I checked for the image today, it had been removed. Great news, right? Well, it … Continue reading →

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Canadian radio station reveals its misogyny

On Facebook the edge 102.1, a popular Toronto, Canada radio station, made a post reeking of misogyny that also attracted many sexist remarks. Continue reading →

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Asylum denied to teenager at risk of FGM

Why is Britain threatening to send a Nigerian girl back home to face female genital mutilation? by Mischa Wilmers | New Internationalist Olayinka was 14 when she came to live in Britain with her mother and two brothers. She fled Nigeria in … Continue reading →

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‘Take your portion’: A victim speaks out about rape in Syria

by Lauren Wolfe | WomenUnderSiege Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman. Some bedsores have become so deep she’s having surgery tomorrow. Screws hold together her upper vertebrae, and cigarette … Continue reading →

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Sun, Sea and Sex Scandal: Morocco’s Shady Status as a Sex Tourism Hotspot

Could the public outrage around the Daniel Galvan paedophilia scandal jolt the government into taking sex tourism and sexual abuse more seriously? BY LOUBNA SKALLI-HANNA | ThinkAfricaPress On July 31, 2013, news that 64-year-old Spanish citizen, Daniel Galvan, had received a royal … Continue reading →

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Burmese ‘Slave Labor’ Continues in Thailand, Despite Bangkok Promises

By WILLIAM BOOT / THE IRRAWADDY Tens of thousands of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand, including children, continue to be used as virtually forced labor in the seafood processing industry, according to NGOs, despite pressure on the Thai government by the … Continue reading →

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Social workers. A few words on Ukraine

Darkness descends on the border settlement of Uzhgorod, a few kilometers from Slovakia and Hungary in Ukraine’s westernmost region of  Transcarpathia. People walk by as shadows along unlit streets, and the river, whose undeveloped, sultry banks trend a sweeping curve … Continue reading →

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