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Women in Gaza are documenting and resisting the war in every way they can. They warn that Gaza’s crisis is deeply gendered and insist any aid or peace plan must put women and girls first – Batoul Yazbeck reports.
It’s confronting to imagine your mate or a relative as a perpetrator of intimate partner violence but with one in three men admitting to this crime, it’s a thought that needs to be addressed.
For over a decade, thousands of men, women, and children, including thousands of Hazaras fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, have been living in limbo.
Last month, the Federal Court’s Justice Darryl Rangiah ruled that journalist Lattouf had been unlawfully terminated when the ABC took her off air 18 months ago, after she shared a post on Instagram featuring a headline by the Human Rights Watch which reported that Israel was found to have been using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. 
Why is Taiwan seeing a new feminist wave in politics, as regression and stagnation persist in South Korea and Japan? – Yige Xu reports.
Despite the increasing emphasis on gender equality in international development efforts, women’s political participation remains tightly ensnared by patriarchal institutions and parochial gender norms.
In the years since Juneteenth was signed into U.S. law, the voices of Black Texans have been erased. 
"Grassroots not-for-profit (NFP) organisations are uniquely positioned to deliver genuine aid, support, and empowerment to women in need."
Opinion: A 2025/26 State Budget reflection by Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

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