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Esme McAvoy is in the Amazon to find out what’s happening to the Yasuní proposal.…

It is no longer acceptable to live in a world where young girls are taken out of school and forced into early marriage, where women’s employment opportunities are limited, and where the threat of gender-based violence is a daily reality — at home, in the street, at school and at work. -Michele Bachelet, Head of UN Women…

Noreen Sadik…

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Nigeria must reconsider laws which allow the marrying off of minors with impunity.…

The reality of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides cannot be denied, despite the efforts of Turkey and its allies, writes Lucine Kasbarian.…

Includes a murky past.…

Campaigner for women’s rights in her native Iran, Leila Alikarami talks about the One Million Signatures campaign, how the equality laws can and should be changed, and the impact of the election result on her fellow countrywomen.…

Malalai Joya was one of the first women to be elected to Afghanistan’s parliament…

With governments doing so little about climate change, civil disobedience, such as that taken by the Drax 29, may be our only hope.…