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April 8, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Missed Opportunity for an Arms Embargo on South Sudan

Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015.

April 5, 2016 News Release

Iraq: Women Suffer Under ISIS

For Sunnis, Lives Curtailed; for Yezidis, New Accounts of Brutal Rapes

A Sunni Muslim woman who fled the Islamic State's strongholds.

April 4, 2016 Impact

Dispatches: New York Passes Paid Family Leave

April 1, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Kenyan President’s Failed Promises to Rape Victims

Nafula K.,46, was gang raped together with three other women by four men in January 2008 while at an IDP camp.

March 31, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Ending Child Marriage in Zimbabwe

A group of child brides at Annandale farm, Shamva, Mashonaland Central Province after participating in a community meeting on ending child marriage.

March 23, 2016 News Release

Sudan: Silencing Women Rights Defenders

Sexual Abuse, Intimidation by Security Forces

Women at a "No to Women's Oppression" rally protesting Sudan's public order laws, in solidarity with journalist Lubna Hussein, who was prosecuted for wearing trousers. © August 2009 Private

March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Nepal Girl Summit Must Lead to Real Change

Nepalese girls welcome Britain's Prince Harry as he visits heritage sites in Patan Durbar Square in the outskirts of Kathmandu, March 20, 2016.

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Chile’s Welcome Move on Abortion

Demonstrators raie their thumbs in approval during a rally inside congress in favor of a draft law by the government, which seeks to ease the country's strict abortion ban, in Valparaiso, Chile March 17, 2016. The banner reads: "Chile makes history today,

March 17, 2016 Commentary

In Kenya, Forgotten Rape Survivors Have Stories to Tell

Kamene F. stands outside her house in a slum in Nairobi with her 7-year-old son born from rape.

March 14, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: New Plan to Help Women in Kenya, but What About Rape Survivors?

Fatma W. with her 7-year old son born from rape.

March 13, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Let Them Learn or Leave Them Behind?

March 9, 2016 News Release

Dispatches: Afghanistan’s Legal System Fails Farkhunda, Again

A picture of Farkhunda, an Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set alight on fire on Thursday, is seen during her funeral ceremony in Kabul March 22, 2015.

March 8, 2016 Commentary

This is How Women are Exploited in Today’s Global Workforce

An activist from the Worker Information Center, a local nongovernmental organization, sporting a t-shirt as part of a campaign to raise awareness about garment workers’ wages in Cambodia.

March 8, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Life and Death in Papua New Guinea

March 8, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: No Excuse for Domestic Violence in Morocco

Stop domestic violence in Morocco

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