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Penalties handed down by Sudan’s Public Order Courts, whose role is to ‘uphold moral order,’ mean vast sums of money are going into the state treasury and judges’ pockets – and 70 percent of such cases involve women.
In New Delhi slums, a charity is training women paralegals to represent residents being denied their benefits, helping them file grievances with the government through text messages.
Bolivia has the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America with one in every three women experiencing some kind of sexual abuse before the age of 18. One activist is trying to change that by challenging stereotypes and overturning laws.
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