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The Real Amazons

The Amazon women are legendary, now new research suggests they were from Benin

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Does Arranged Marriage Impede on Women's Rights?

Are young Asian-British women under too much pressure to accept arranged marriages?

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Why Are We Getting Bigger?

Women are larger than ever yet striving to look like supermodels - why?

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Does Mother Always Know Best?

Do mums really always know best? A global look at mother-daughter relationships

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Standing Up for Press Freedom

The female editor of a Pakistani newspaper is refusing to resign despite death threats

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The End of FGM?

A woman of African origin has been convicted of female genital mutilation in France.

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The Farming Of Bones

Edwidge Danticat, the Haitian author, talks about her latest novel, The Farming Of Bones

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Birth Control in Japan

In Japan, birth control pills are about to be sold for the first time - why such a delay?

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Special Edition on HIV and AIDS

Why 43% of people living with HIV and AIDS are women, and what is being done to help them

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Women in Space

A look into the future of female astronauts

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Talking About HIV and AIDS

South African women are afraid to admit they're HIV positive for fear of being stigmatised

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Communicating With Your Unborn Baby

Does haptonomy allow mothers to communicate with their unborn babies?

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Women and Political Life

Why women's issues are a major campaigning point in the Turkish elections

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Rape as a Weapon of War

Discussing the effects of war on women around the world.

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Women and Press Freedom

Why one women's newspaper in Iran has been banned for the third time

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Change On The Ivory Coast

Will new women-friendly legislation in the Ivory Coast have any real impact?

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The Lost Girls of Guatemala

One Guatemalan woman's desperate search for her missing daughters

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Tears and Tiaras: Are Beauty Pageants Anachronistic?

Why hosting Miss Universe in Trinidad and Tobago met some local resistance

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The Truth About Nursing

A look at the British district nurse who looks after patients at home

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Why Don't Men Do Housework?

A new German initiative aims to force men into doing half of the housework

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The Global Yoga Craze

Why Indian women have been practising yoga for centuries

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Ministering Angel From Above

A flying nurse in Nairobi talks about her life-saving work

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Can Cross-Cultural Fashion Ever Really Work?

Is it OK to appropriate global cultures for the purposes of fashion?

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That Crazy Thing Called Love

An academic and a psychologist share their perspectives on love

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Cold War Propaganda

How the CIA funded art exhibitions to promote the American way

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Argentina's Angry Grandmothers

Why the grandmother's of Argentina's stolen children are still looking for justice

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Caring for the Elderly

Why is the tradition of living with elderly parents breaking down in India?

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Homeless Girls in Brazil

A Brazilian photographer talks about her images of street girls who dress as boys

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Uranium and Women in Central India

How India's uranium programme threatens to destroy livelihoods and disempower women

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Nursing on the Frontline

Nurses working in conflict zones talk about the situations they've faced

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