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Waiting Home Increases Safe Deliveries
STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — To reduce the dangers of childbirth in remote rural areas, high-risk mothers here are being encouraged to stay in a safe and clean ‘waiting home’ before delivering in a health facility with…
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Youth in Forgotten Guinea-Bissau Struggle for Survival
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — Bullet holes still pockmark the presidential palace in Bissau, although the country’s civil war was waged almost a decade ago.
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The Private Sector Joins Türkiye's Campaign to End Violence Against Women
ISTANBUL — The first thing a visitor notices when entering the spacious lobby of Türkiye's largest daily newspaper, Hürriyet, is a life-size poster of a battered woman staring out with vacant eyes under the words…
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Türkiye Confronts Murder in the Name of 'Honour'
ISTANBUL — The execution of a girl or woman to protect a family’s reputation is an ancient practice that persists in some communities where women are bound by strict, patriarchal codes of conduct and considered to be…
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It Takes a Country: Türkiye's Concerted Efforts to Stop Violence Against Women
Violence against women is difficult to eradicate: It is fueled and perpetuated by unequal power relationships and deeply entrenched ideas about gender relations.
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Y-PEER: Building the Human Infrastructure for Social Change
NEW YORK — On three separate time lines taped to the walls of a conference centre in upstate New York, members of the Global Advisory Panel of Y-PEER wrote down events that had shaped their own lives, the world and the…
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Former Fistula Patient Preaches Prevention to Village Women in Niger
ZINDER, Niger — Kouboura Moutari greets visitors to her home in the village of Madara with her fist raised in a power salute.
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U.S. Filmmaker Marston Talks about Migration in Viet Nam
HANOI, Viet Nam — Swallowed cocaine pellets in Colombia and exploding trucks in Iraq may seem a world away from the struggles of rural migrants in Viet Nam, but internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Marston finds…
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Tbilisi Cancer Centre: Promoting Early Detection and Treatment of Breast and Cervical Cancers in Georgia
TBILISI, Georgia — Dr. George Gabunia is a man with a mission. As director of the Tbilisi Cancer Centre, he is fighting an epidemic of breast and reproductive tract cancers in the country.
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