Tag: women’s rights
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Iran investigates 900 schoolgirls’ poisoning
After nationwide protests erupted last year, resistance to Iran’s mandatory hijab law has exploded across the country. Women uncovering their hair an inch at a time. 900 schoolgirls have been poisoned by toxic gas on the 2nd of March 2023, in what many believe is a deliberate attempt to force their schools to shut. No girls have…
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I was at the Women’s March on Washington
By Elise Delpiano Elise Delpiano is a fourth year Arts (International Relations)/Law student, currently on exchange at Georgetown University, Washington. Yesterday morning, I was one of an estimated half a million people who peacefully protested in the streets at the Women’s March on Washington. There was a marked difference in the atmosphere from that of…
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UNSW women among 10,000 at Women’s March, Sydney
By Alicia D’Arcy, Features Sub-editor Yesterday, Hyde Park was home to a sea of up to 10,000 people protesting the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. The Women’s March Sydney was one of more than 500 events held worldwide to mark the first day of the Trump administration. Speakers in the lead-up…