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    Britain elects record number of female lawmakers in 2019 election

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:04 PM

    Women now represent just over a third of all members of parliament, taking 220 seats out of 650 in Britain's lower house compared to 208 in the previous election

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    Indian state seeks to fast-track hanging for rapists after string of brutal attacks

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:06 PM

    Indian law currently allows jail terms for rape, and death in very rare cases, but cases can last years

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    'It could've been me': India women demand safety as recent rapes prompt hundreds of petitions

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:27 AM

    Students, activists and the mother of a student who was gang raped and killed on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, have joined the rising number of petitioners calling for action from authorities

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    Costa Rica's president says therapeutic abortions will be allowed

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:27 AM

    On paper, a 50-year-old law allows a pregnancy to be terminated only if the mother's health is at risk, but a lack of regulatory clarity at hospitals has meant the law could not be applied

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    Australia names first female intelligence chief

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:52 AM

    Rachel Noble will become next director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), which intercepts electronic communications from foreign countries

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    Argentina's new government moves to guarantee access to abortion in rape cases

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:35 AM

    Argentine law allows abortion in case of rape or threat to the life or health of the mother but activists say the law is not always applied across the largely Roman Catholic country

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    West African court voids Sierra Leone's ban on pregnant schoolgirls

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:00 AM

    Activists hope the move will lead to challenges against similar laws across Africa

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    Former Spanish soccer players sentenced to prison for raping teenager

    Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:41 PM

    The issue of sexual violence has been thrust in the spotlight in Spain in the wake of several trials, including the so-called Wolf Pack case

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    Women want in as internet revolution creeps into Chad

    Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:29 AM

    Women are more cut off than Chadian men as so few own phones, literacy rates are low, and cultural norms dictate that tech jobs go mostly to men

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    Michelle Obama tells girls to fight man's 'presumption' to power

    Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:41 PM

    'We need women and diverse minds, people who think differently and have different religious beliefs, because truth and the right answers come from diversity of experiences'

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