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Marina Watson Pelaez is a freelance trilingual journalist and documentary-maker. She has explored the effects of austerity in Portugal, the control of water resources in the West Bank, India’s rape crisis, and the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority from Myanmar in Bangkok.
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After a history of handing out lenient sentences to domestic abusers, the Portuguese government is focusing on prevention and education in a bid to turn things around.
The leader of Portugal’s left-wing Left Bloc party, Catarina Martins, talks about how female politicians are fighting to promote gender equality in her country.
Trump’s ban on the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. threw lives into chaos. Even with the ban suspended, three women describe here the uncertainty that has gripped their lives, not knowing what will happen next to their jobs or families.
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