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Whether it’s new legislation or the accomplishments of female world leaders, we investigate the light and the dark in hard news. We break down what policy changes mean for our readers, while exploring how the world can be a better place.

Flo Health - best known as a period tracker app - has raised $200 million to plough into its next phase of growth. The company says it's a win for FemTech, but not all female founders are convinced.
With the surging rate of unemployment in Kenya, and the youth making 68 per cent of the unemployed, it was just a matter of time before the building anxiety erupted.
After 10 months, the Australian Government has released its response to the Commission’s recommendations. The Government accepts in full only 13 out of the total of 222 recommendations (172 of which are the Australian Government’s responsibility).
A little more than two years ago there was no such thing as Bilan Media. Now our tiny team of six young women journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia has been thrust onto the global stage by winning the highly competitive One World Media Press Freedom award.
Since the National Assembly's decision to reject the private member's bill that sought to repeal the ban on FGM in The Gambia, different perspectives on this topic have been shared across the country.
America’s new presidential “it girl” faces a long road ahead.
Freshta Karim and her family fled Afghanistan with one children's magazine to fortify their literary yearnings. Today, Freshta leads the largest chain of children's mobile libraries in her country.

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