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Asia and the Middle East

Indonesian Technology Ministers are all worked up over “pornographic” materials available to citizens via their Blackberry devices, and threatened to ban Blackberry [...]

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“They ask me when you should start sex education, and I say as soon as the child can talk. They should be [...]

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As of next school year, children attending Malaysia’s primary schools will learn about inappropriate touching, reproductive systems, sexually transmitted infections, and a [...]

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Today, over 40 organizations will stage bold actions in 12 countries to promote human rights as part of “One Day, One Struggle,” [...]

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Even though abortion is legal in almost all countries to save a woman’s life and in three-fifths of countries to protect her [...]

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This piece was originally posted on RH Reality Check, and features the work of our partner SANGRAM and their project VAMP. Last [...]

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This week on Akimbo we did a run down of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), paired with our film picks in the [...]

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The Washington Post reported last week that the Christian group Focus on the Family has partnered with Chinese officials to develop an abstinence [...]

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We recently posted about the compelling and disturbing image featured in Time magazine of a young Afghan woman whose in-laws sliced her [...]

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Back in April, I won the International Women’s Health Coalition Young Visionaries 2010 contest and was awarded a grant to increase awareness [...]

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