Billionaire Luiza Trajano, the businesswoman shaking up Brazil
by Luján Scarpinelli © Agence France-Presse SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) -- Brazilian businesswoman Luiza Trajano has made it onto a…
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Sudanese women footballers tackle hurdles to play the game
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) - Sudan's women's football team is yet to win a match, but members say they have scored…
4 years ago
Kuwait army allows women in combat roles, but without guns
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) - Kuwaiti women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat roles, decided…
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‘My heart and body shake’: Afghan women defy Taliban
by Rouba EL HUSSEINI Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) - One after the other, quickly, carefully, keeping their heads down,…
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UN demands Taliban provide info on two more missing women activists
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) - The United Nations has demanded the Taliban provide information on two more women activists allegedly detained…
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Beauty pageants ‘devastated’ by suicide of Miss USA 2019
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - Organizers of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants said Monday they were "devastated"…
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Violence against women rising amid pandemic, says UN on Int’l Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
(Eagle News) – “Nearly 1 in 3 women have been abused in their lifetime,” according to the United Nations…
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Women plant mangroves to bolster India’s cyclone defenses
SUNDARBANS, India (AFP) -- With India facing ever more powerful cyclones, women in the world's largest mangrove forest are planting…
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Afghan girls to return to school ‘soon as possible’: Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) -- Girls in Afghanistan will be allowed to return to school as soon as possible, the Taliban…
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Afghan girls’ football team flees to Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) -- Members of Afghanistan's national girls' football team have fled across the border into Pakistan dressed in…
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Taliban say will allow women at universities, but mixed classes banned
Afghan women will be allowed to attend university as long as they study separately from men, the Taliban's new higher…
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Sri Lanka asks women to delay pregnancy over Covid risks
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) -- Sri Lankan women were urged to delay getting pregnant after more than 40 expectant mothers…
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