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Can you imagine yourself as a child, forced to marry a man more than twice your age? What about being forced to have your genitals cut? For young girls in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone, this isn’t imaginary – it is their reality. But...
In July 1918 the Equal Franchise Act was passed by Parliament, giving voting rights to all women over the age of 21. As a result, more than 15 million women became eligible to vote and women achieved equal voting rights to men. The...
It was photographs like this, of Darya Poliudova holding political banners, that were part of the reason the Russian authorities found her guilty of ‘calls to commit extremist activities’ and ‘calls to commit actions threatening the...