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In this week's most shared tweets: Three animated videos highlighting absurd male guardianship laws in Saudi Arabia, laws that allow men to control the lives of women from birth until death, went viral on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube reaching over 6 million people.

Turkey’s coup does not provide President Erdogan with license to ride roughshod over human rights and crackdown on pillars of democracy like press freedom and an independent judiciary. Also, a bogus verdict in Hong Kong; women in Kyrgyzstan valued as less than cattle; France’s state of emergency law; crisis in South Sudan; and a tale of “People Power” from 1937.

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