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Bathroom Break: India’s Sanitation Crisis Is Trapping Women In A Cycle Of Violence

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*This piece of mine was also published on Forbes & The Huffington Post.* Last week, the Thomson Reuters Foundation outlined how Bangladesh, India’s much poorer and flood-prone neighbor, has had more success building bathrooms for its citizens. In just over a decade, Bangladesh managed to decrease the percentage of people defecating in the open from 19% in 2000 to just […]

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Women’s Equality Day: Much Work Remains

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This week marks the 94th Anniversary of women in America winning the right to vote. Although there is much to celebrate, much work remains. That was the core of my message when I appeared on HuffPostLive on Tuesday. America remains one of the few industrialized countries in the world without paid maternity leave, access to

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Anushay’s Point: More Must Be Done To Stop Rape As Weapon Of War

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Last week on PBS, we talked about a host of issues including sexual violence during war, the ethics of surrogacy and how we can effectively tackle child abuse. Often when we talk about rape as a weapon of war, we approach the issue as an inevitable product of conflict. We must change this attitude. As Angelina

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A Woman’s Job: Kurdish Female Fighters On The Front Lines In Iraq

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*This post of mine was also published in The Huffington Post.* The one thing everyone can agree about Iraq right now is that it is a mess. However, in the past week, the US military made tremendous gains against the extremist Islamic group, ISIS. One group on the ground worth singling out are Kurdish military women.

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Nothing But Gold: First Woman Wins Math’s Nobel Prize

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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post.* My personal interest in the field of mathematics was pretty much non-existent until this week when Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman ever to win the prestigious Fields Medal, considered to be the equivalent of mathematics’ Nobel Prize. That fact is also something I

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Anushay’s Point: Violence Against Women Knows No Bounds

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There really are so few shows on US TV like PBS’ To The Contrary that analyzes news on women’s rights from diverse female perspectives. This week we talked about female genital mutilation (FGM) rising in the US, Clinton vs Warren and the Hobby Lobby family wanting to build a church on the National Mall. The issue of

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Bangladeshi Girls Treated Like Cattle

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*This post of mine was also published in The Daily Beast & Global Voices.* Tucked away between the mazes of overflowing sewers and tea stalls in Tangail, just a few kilometers outside of Bangladesh’s crowded capital, Dhaka, are rows of brothels with sex workers addicted to a steroid intended for cows. Although Bangladesh is one of the

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Could The Hobby Lobby Ruling Affect Women Around The World?

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*This post of mine was published on Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post.* When I was growing up in Bangladesh in the early 1980s, I used to imagine America as a feminist utopia. Before I even stepped foot on her soil, I pictured America as a country where women enjoyed full equal rights, especially when it came to controlling

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