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Written by CNN
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
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Article Source: CNN
Mozhdah Jamalzadah is an Afghan superstar in a country still struggling with war and a battle between ideologies and cultures. Born in Kabul, Mozhdah was only five when her family fled to Canada.
"When I was growing up, my parents were like, 'don't ever forget where you're from. And don't ever forget your people because you're one of the lucky ones,'" she says. And she didn't forget.
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Written by Elizabeth Gilbert - Oprah Magazine
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 |
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Article Source: Oprah Magazine - CNN
(OPRAH.com) -- Nearly all the women I know are stressing themselves sick over the pathological fear that they simply aren't doing enough with their lives. Which is crazy -- absolutely flat-out bananas -- because the women I know do a lot, and they do it well.
My cousin Sarah, for instance, is earning her master's degree in international relations, while simultaneously working for a nonprofit that builds playgrounds at woefully underfunded public schools.
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Written by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - CNN
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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Article Source: CNN
(CNN) -- Afghan women won the world's attention nine years ago following the routing of Taliban troops at the hands of U.S. and Afghan forces. Back then, a rush of dignitaries flew to Kabul to denounce the Taliban's brutal treatment of women, although the world had largely forgotten these same women during the previous seven years.
No school, no work, no leaving the house without a man -- even a boy would do. These are the laws Afghan women learned to live with, because they had to. Yet they also found a way to work around those rules.
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Written by Juliana S., 15 - LAYouth.com
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Article Source: LA Youth
I have had a lot of sad things happen to me. My mom passed away when I was 7. I was abused by my grandmother. I didn’t have a chance to talk about how I felt so over time my anger built up inside me. I’d go off on people and curse at them. At the group home I’m at now I learned to express myself and get my feelings out. I don’t have as much anger. I don’t hold on to my past as much anymore.
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Written by NICHOLAS KRISTOF - International Herald Tribune
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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Article Source: International Herald Tribune
Last September I posted about the increasingly widespread belief in the global development community that one way to help high school girls in poor countries stay in school is to help them manage menstruation. There’s anecdotal evidence that girls stay home during their periods (because of a lack of hygiene products and underwear, as well as embarrassment, cramps and taboos). Then they get further and further behind and eventually drop out. If that’s true, then interventions to address this would be a cost-effective way of keeping girls in school.
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