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Valens Ntamushobora – Huffington Post – Tuesday, 22 May 2012 (originally published 14 May) I hate it when I see young women and girls suffering from poverty, violence and HIV/AIDS. Most of us do. It is a terrible feeling, and it gets worse when you believe you can’t do anything about it. You and I [...]

Santorri Chamley – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GDN) Beni Zuli, MOROCCO: In a tiny classroom at the Maison de Citoyenneté support centre for the education of rural girls and women in Beni Zuli, an isolated village in Zagora, deep in south-eastern Morocco‘s Draa Valley, Fatima Kadmire is describing how learning to read and write is transforming [...]

Sabine Clappaert – WNN Features (WNN) Kiev, UKRAINE: At first sight, few people would mark the group of topless young women protesting in the streets of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, as outspoken advocates or feminists. Garlands of flowers adorn their waist-length hair, strategically thrown forward to cover their bare breasts. But the black graffiti-style [...]