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Katie Arnold is a freelance journalist covering human rights and environmental issues in Central and Southeast Asia. She works primarily with a camera, but sometimes with a pen, and can be found on Twitter @kate_arno.
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In the Rohingya refugee camps of southern Bangladesh, women-only support centers run by volunteers offer a safe space for those who have survived violence during Myanmar’s brutal military campaign.
In the Fergana Valley, mass migration of men has left women in charge of many of the farms. But patriarchal attitudes and a Soviet irrigation system leave them without the water they need to survive.
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