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BANGLADESH: Suffering Beyond a War

Scholar Yasmin Saikia talks about the untold stories from the 1971 Bangladesh war that led her to write Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh.

GEORGIA: Jioeva Prepares Inauguration, Asks Candidates to Withdraw

A South Ossetian opposition leader calls for the other candidates to not take part in a rescheduled election March 25, calling it illegal, and instead recognize her as the legitimate head of government.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Using Performing Arts to End Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea

Dramatizing violence! That's the motto of the community-based Seeds Theatre Group to address violence against women and girls in the densely populated communities of the Lae District in the Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

ISRAEL: "Haradat Nashim" – How The Exclusion of Women Is Tearing Israel Apart

The past few months have seen a growth of public discord in Israel, but this time, the issue at hand has nothing to do with territory or terrorism. Instead, there has been a heated clash between secular and ultra-Orthodox Israelis over the treatment of women within the country.

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