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About 5,000 women are killed each year in so-called "honor" killings around the world.These are crimes in which the victims, who are almost always female,…
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At first glance, media in Pakistan and the Ukraine have little in common.But in both the South Asian nation and the former Soviet republic, independent…
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The Paris agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions has led to new hope that the worst effects of climate change may be avoided.On this edition of…
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Journalists and bloggers in Bangladesh are finding themselves increasingly under fire. Last year, a group that calls itself “Defenders of Islam” published…
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India — the world's biggest democracy — just concluded the largest general election in history. Over 537 million votes were cast over the past month, and…
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The sexual assault of a young woman on a New Delhi bus last December sparked widespread debate about the safety of women in India. The attack killed a…
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India’s northeast state of Assam is suffering through its worst communal violence in more than a decade.Clashes broke out in July between indigenous Bodo…
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More than 160 million women were never born as a result of sex-selective abortion. That's more than the entire female population of the United…
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On this edition of Global Journalist, a look at how the news gets reported in some very different parts of the world. We’ll talk to a journalist from…