Here is a Spanish short film by Xavi Sala about  the discrimination young Muslim women face in a so-called “free” Europe where everything but religion is tolerated in the name of freedom.

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These videos are part of the “Because I Am a Girl” Campaign.

From Canada:

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Thanks to the In the Sisterhood blog for directing me to this campaign.
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Back in November, the Associated Press reported on the case of Alexis Hutchinson, an Army cook and single mother who refused to deploy with her unit to Afghanistan because she had no one to care for her then 10-month-old son, Kamani. Spc. Hutchinson was arrested and charged with offenses that could have led to a [...]

Copied from the Care2 website (posted by Ximena R. on December 17, 2009):
A Chance at Justice Denied: Rape Kits in America Go Untested
“After he let me live I wished he killed me.”
Such were Debbie Smith’s words after describing a rape she endured nearly 20 years ago when a masked man abducted her from her home [...]

I found two articles on The Nation’s website that covered two health care issues of concern to special categories of women: those undergoing plastic surgery and those who are pregnant and in prison.
The first one, “Feminism’s Face-Lift” by Alexandra Suich,  is about an excise tax being proposed on all elective plastic surgery, including the administration [...]