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  • Salvadoran First Lady, Vanda Pignato, receives a hug from a supporter at an International Women's Day event in San Salvador. Photo by Jamie Stark.

    Steps toward equality amidst machismo in El Salvador

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    SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – Small signs of support for gender equality are popping up here in Central America. Women’s rights are more than pressing here in El Salvador, the nation with the highest rate of femicide in the world. Yet changes are evident and increasingly popular. The current left-leaning […]

  • Bhutanese Women: Empowering and leading the way forward

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    Bhutanese women have always enjoyed a privileged gender status unlike their counterparts in neighboring countries. Many of them are trailblazers in their work on issues of domestic violence, good governance and the environment and are truly  an inspiration for the future generation. Leading the way is the Queen Mother of […]

  • The Loss of Womanhood

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    The first Olena is 30 years old and she “renders cleaning services”. “Please, don’t take picture of me working, better snap my place of work. Look there! I even don’t wanna know what’s happened” – she said to a journalist. Of course few people would like to see even such […]