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Halting the Beasts of Syria

by Hummingbird

"These are not the actions of terrorists or armed gangs. This is called extermination."

As Hummingbird watches horrors and crimes against humanity tearing apart her homeland, another crime is unfolding: silence from the international community Read More »

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DRC: A Woman’s Revolutionist Mind

by Neema

After soldiers targeted her daughter, Neema contemplates a radical and miraculous response: love. Read More »

"Why have I been afraid to speak about love and forgiveness?"

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DR CONGO: Fighting Evil from Inside Hell

by CongoLeezza

In one of the world’s worst regions to be a woman, radio personality Chouchou Namegabe is inspiring a revolution of strength and healing. She speaks with local World Pulse correspondent CongoLeezza on what it will take for women to break the silence on Congo's rape epidemic. Read More »

“I remember when we didn’t have a word for rape in Swahili.”

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NIGERIA: Think Outside the Oil

by Simi Lawoyin

Dependence on oil wealth has led to violence, corruption, and widespread poverty in Nigeria. Simi Lawoyin hopes to shift investment to another of Nigeria's natural resources: its youth. Read More »

"Enterprise must become a weapon with which we fight, a tool with which we rebuild our nation, and a bridge with which we connect with the world."

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BRAZIL: Time to Break the Silence on Abortion

by Thais Moraes

When her father was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for performing a potentially life-saving abortion on a 9-year-old girl, Thais Moraes recognized the need to open up discussion on abortion in Brazil. Read More »

"The archbishop affirmed that rape was a dreadful sin. But abortion, he said, was even worse."

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AFGHANISTAN: Saffron in the Opium Fields

by Marvah Shakib

Opium produced in Afghanistan for international markets has wreaked havoc at home. Marvah Shakib explores how a common kitchen spice could provide one possible solution. Read More »

“[Opium] is the only means of survival for thousands of women-headed households."

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CAMEROON: Lessons from the Kitchen

by Sharon Ajongakoh Asonganyi

The kitchen is all too often a symbol of women's exclusion from public space, but Sharon Ajongakoh Asonganyi believes it can also be a source of strength and innovation for women. Read More »

"The kitchen may just be the right place to develop creative strategies that promote the African woman’s emancipation."

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PAKISTAN: Dangerous Texting

by Iffat Gill

Youth activist Iffat Gill warns that the culture in Pakistan needs to catch up with technological freedoms of the digital age—or young lives will be at risk. Read More »

"There is now a sharp contrast between the empowerment modern technology has granted women, and the rights our male-dominated society allows them to enjoy."

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My Community: A Wealth of Gender Discrimination

by sunita.basnet

Discouragement from her family couldn’t stop her, and neither could restrictive cultural mores. Voices of Our Future correspondent Sunita Basnet continues to fight for a Nepal where women and girls can dream big. Read More »

"We want to fly in the sky like birds, but we don’t need wings because we don’t want to fly away from our country."

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If I Still Had You…

by jap21

In an open love letter, Voices of Our Future correspondent Jacqueline Patiño honors her late grandmother for lighting the way for women. Read More »

"This is the big secret, sisters of the world: we cannot ask any man to give us a place in the world, because it is already ours."