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Enduring domestic violence in Iraq: One woman’s story
“I was so desperate, I had lost hope. Committing suicide seemed the only escape from the abuse, back then,” Fatima* said in an interview earlier this month. “I didn’t know how to handle the pain.”
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Nicaragua: protegiendo los derechos de aquellos en condiciones de vulnerabilidad
A sus 19 años, Michelle Zeledón ya cuenta con grandes responsabilidades para una persona de su edad. Tiene una hija de 4 años y trabaja desde las 6:30 a.m. hasta 10:30 p.m. en una empresa tabacalera para mantenerla....
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Crashing a wedding, saving a child bride: App helps girl avoid child marriage
When a 13-year-old girl in the remote village of Darbhanga, in India’s Bihar State, overheard her parents planning to marry her off to a 15-year-boy the very next day, she had little hope to stop it.
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Amid Marawi crisis, displaced young people empower their communities
Seventeen-year-old Abdul Nasser Berua stood before a group of teenagers, explaining how they can protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections such as HIV.
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As Rohingya refugee crisis escalates, women emerge as front-line responders
The border between Bangladesh and Myanmar is the site of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Over 620,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Rakhine State in Myanmar have arrived in Cox’s Bazar District in just...
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View from a camp in Myanmar – one family's story from before the recent crisis
More than 600,000 people, most of them Rohingya, have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since August, representing a massive escalation in an already grave humanitarian crisis. Yet many people remain in Myanmar, living in...
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Running for her life: A journey of violence, displacement and healing
Dalia Asinde was married 16 years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was 22 and in love, she said. But her husband soon became violent – and relentless. She lost count of the beatings, insults and torments...
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“I felt like a prisoner”: Spousal violence in Iraq
“There are lots of setbacks in life, but what matters is standing up again,” said 33-year-old Cojine*. She would know. She endured years of spousal abuse.
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Los jóvenes participan en campaña para poner fin a los noviazgos violentos
Con tan sólo 16 años de edad, Laura* ya ha vivido experiencias de violencia de parte de su pareja. “Durante dos años soporté violencia verbal y hasta física,” afirma en referencia a un ex novio. “Es una de las peores...
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