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Reading groups are springing up across Kabul, broadening youthful horizons in a country where books are often censored -
Visually impaired women in Colombia are using their enhanced sense of feel to improve early breast cancer detection
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Women and children fare worst as efforts to contain outbreak are undermined by health centre attacks and local mistrust
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Rural development programmes to wean poppy farmers off their illicit crop contend with lack of roads, water and power in remote areas plagued by militias
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Though outlawed, slavery persists in Mauritania. Photojournalist Seif Kousmate spent a month there photographing and talking to people touched by its blight -
Modern slavery is a crime where the most vulnerable people are abused for profit, with many forced to live and work in squalid conditions -
Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy each year on the promise of a prosperous new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade -
Laurynas Kelpsa and two fellow migrant workers who are suing the ‘worst UK gangmaster ever’ describe working for UK-based firm DJ Houghton
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Judicial harassment and rise in arrests under anti-sodomy law add to climate of tension and fear
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From violence and harassment to the pursuit of simple pleasures like riding a bicycle, women in Bangladesh face innumerable obstacles -
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With so many misconceptions and taboos around sex, Liz Ford looks at why effective education is more important than ever
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Sexual harassment has long been rife in Nigeria’s bustling markets. Now women are mobilising in protest -
About 13,000 people are kept in slavery in the UK. Amy Romer’s book The Dark Figure* reveals the terrifying ordinariness of the sites of their captivity
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