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Pakistani women climb a hard road, up the highest mountain — patriarchy — but this is a mountain that they will conquer. In this essay, Bina Shah explains how telling women’s stories is the first step towards empowerment. The Highest Mountain in Pakistan I am…
Faryal Makhdoom is a young model and activist, and wife of the two-time World Boxing Association Champion, Amir Khan. Recently, Faryal announced (via Snapchat) that she was breaking the silence surrounding the abuse she and her husband had suffered at…
Okay, so I’ve had a day and a half to take on the severity of what is actually happening in the world. Donald Trump will be president of America. Just take a moment to let that sink in. My daughter…
More specifically, it’s a refugee Jungle in Calais, France. I am going to play a little game with you. I’m assuming you’re sitting in some sort of comfy chair. Let’s start with removing this comfort. Next, eliminate your family. Remove your freedom of…
I come from a family of very traditional, strict Muslims. Females have always been regarded as the ‘second’ sex within my lineage. It is not something that is announced publicly. It’s more of a mentality that is gradually taught to…
More than half a century ago, Norway ratified the United Nations Refugee Convention (1952). The convention describes who refugees are, and what rights they are entitled to in a host country. As a host country, Norway is obligated to assist:…
Sometimes, I look at myself and wonder what my parents say when they talk about me to other family members. Or what they’ve told my teachers in past parent-teacher interviews, or what they think when we sit down for awkward…
I stood crippled for a month at the intersection of two of the most important issues in Saudi Arabia. These two issues: women’s rights, and freedom of speech, have been the focus of debate in the public domain, and they…
For those of us who ever feel conflicted about the United Nations, the past month has been an exercise in managing absurd cognitive dissonance. First, on October 21 2016, the United Nations announced that the 1940s comic book heroine, Wonder…
I never thought I’d find myself appealing to Playboy magazine to defend women’s dignity by asking them to rethink their depiction of ‘modesty’. But then again, we live in a bizarre time when a woman like myself -a feminist from a…
Women and children are severely affected by instability and war, being physically and mentally vulnerable to the brutalities of wars and hardship of displacement. Millions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), mostly from the tribal belt of North Waziristan, are living…
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