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Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights and former president of Chile, is a rare example of female leadership at national and international levels.

Gender equality

Use the gender lens

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by Cema Tork

Girls and boys

Closing gender gaps in an NGO school

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by Frank Masanta Jr.
In Chigozie Obioma’s novel “The Fishermen”, a decision to go fishing has disastrous consequences for Ben and his brothers.

Summer Special

The power of superstition

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Numerous valuable manuscripts were saved from Islamists. However, poor storage facilities and harsh climate conditions put them at risk.

Summer Special

Timbuktu – a story of heroes and myths

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by Dagmar Wolf
A Mexican mother holding a picture of her murdered daughter.

Gender-based violence

Killed for being female

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Twitter activist Nana Ama Agyemang Asante.

Internet

Clicktivism

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by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu
Author Ferda Ataman.

Summer Special

“I belong here!”

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Twelve-year-old Osama in a military camp. He is one of many recruits trained for the “holy war”.

Summer Special

Lost childhood

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by Theresa Krinninger
Tribal elder and seed keeper Louie Hena in Tesuque Pueblo in the US state of New Mexico holding “Mother Maize”, the ancestor of the maize varieties he cultivates.

Summer Special

The value of 158 varieties of cauliflower

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by Katja Dombrowski
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