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ALICE SPRINGS
Alice Springs was totally different to what I had imagined. I’d been picturing a dusty, windblown town full of pubs, cattle drovers and aborigines, with a few shacks clustered down a main street –...
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ON BEHALF OF THE OPPRESSED
Long the voice of the voiceless in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh requires every ounce of her extraordinary courage to avoid being silenced herself. As a lawyer, she spoke out for the rights of her imprisoned...
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THERE AND BACK
I see rolling hills a man and his dog homestead protected by the arching trees city streets people resting, playing, shopping all that rushing – never stopping glad to get home for a cuppa and put my...
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PAKISTAN
Gunmen have attacked a hospital in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, hours after an explosion on a bus killed 14 female university students. Officials say four gunmen were killed during a siege of...
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Nothing changes
FROM “THE WOMEN’S FESTIVAL” Aristophanes 448-380 BC Translated by W. Lucas Collins Published in Masterpieces of the World’s Best Literature 1910 They’re always abusing the women, As a terrible plague...
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ON A NEWS REPORT
A woman kneels among the jeers of men on earth dusty, disinterested. It’s seen it all before. No mercy here just dogs to tear her flesh and hide their own misdeeds. Gunshots end the torment. Women,...
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FOR MY SISTERS
If you are a woman in a country of fanatics do not dance you will be shot do not smile you will be shot do not be a rape victim you will be stoned for the family honour do not expect life to be fair...
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