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Moroccan feminist Ghizlane Mamouni"Progress stops where equality begins"
Morocco has its first female head of government, and yet reforms on women's rights have stalled and a feminist is in custody because of a T-shirt. Her lawyer, human rights activist Ghizlane Mamouni, talks about the struggle for gender equality.
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51°C in Pakistan: Mothers bear brunt of climate change
Few places are more punishing than Jacobabad in southern Pakistan. Last month, temperatures hit 51 Celsius on 14 May. Women and children bear the main brunt of such "extreme humid heat events".
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"Capernaum": Oscar contender for Best Foreign Film
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki's CAPERNAUM ("Chaos") tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life.
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Mauritania criminalises extra-marital relations
Human Rights Watch explains how the criminalisation of sexual relations outside marriage in Mauritania is putting rape survivors at risk. The law deters them from filing complaints because they could themselves face prosecution.
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Documentary highlights domestic drudgery in Lebanon
Maher Abi Samra′s disturbing documentary ″A Maid for Each″ takes a cool-headed look at a Beirut agency that traffics in domestic help. Some may take comfort in thinking the situation of domestic servants in Lebanon isn’t ″our″ world, but in truth, the commodification of foreign home workers by type (″my Filipina″, ″my Mexican″) is a near-universal problem.
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"A Syrian Love Story": Sean McAllister's documentary
Award-winning director Sean McAllister's heart-rending documentary about a couple caught up in the Syrian civil war.
