Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka lacks progress in protecting rights of women, LGBT community and minorities: UK

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Sri Lanka

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Donald Trump - Michael Avenatti Says He’ll Represent Three More Women Allegedly Paid Off by Trump

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Daily Beast

Lessee... 3, 4, 5... but who's counting?

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Guyana - Transgender Guyanese women ask CCJ to strike down colonial law

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Georgetown, Guyana (Stabroek Market)

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Ives ad targets transgender community, immigrants and women who get abortions

Tina Stondeles
Chicago Sun-Times

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Appeals court declines to stop order requiring military to enlist transgender men and women

Ann E. Marimow
The Washington Post

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Donald Trump believes women (when it is politically beneficial to him)

Clayton Purdom
The A.V. Club

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ezs note:  If you are going to be in Rochester, New York on December 1, you might find this helpful.

Long before transgender was a word, women posed as men to serve in the army

Bonnie Tsui
Los Angeles Times

drawing of Robert Shurtleff

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Millennial women opposed to Trump take to streets, many for the first time (Kenya)

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The Star / Kenya

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20 Worst Moments for Women in 2016

Prachi Gupta
Cosmopolitan

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ezs note:  It's at the end of the end of the article, (number 20) but transgender women should pay particular attention.

Women, LGBT urged to fight bigotry (Philippines)

Llanesca T. Panti
The Manila Times

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Anti-Transgender Campaign Aims To Gain Support By Harassing Women In Restrooms

Zack Ford
ThinkProgress

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Transgender Men And Women Are Sharing Photos Of Their Transitions On Social Media, Celebrating Gender Identity

Ali Venosa
Medical Daily

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Immigration detention center expands in Southern California

Amy Taxin
paradisepost.com

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Unadulterated strength: the women of Indigenous Australia in their own words (UK)

Helen Davidson
The Guardian

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Rachel Notley proud of ‘historic’ number of women elected in Alberta (Canada)

Patricia Kozicka
Global News

Two transgender women talk about transition, stigma

Melissa Swan

WHAS11

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Gillian Anderson is co-writing a self-help guide for women

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

A.V. Club

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Padge Victoria Windslowe guilty: How she performed illegal butt injections to thousands of women

CHRISTOPHER KOULOURIS
scallywagandvagabond.com

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ezs note:  Y'know what? GOOD!  Ms. Winslowe may have given us all the claptrap about how "good" her "skills" were, but the only place she'll do it now is in the pen.  Rest in peace, Claudia.

LOCAL CHARITY SHOWS LOVE TO THE WOMEN OF THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE THIS VALENTINE’S DAY (Canada)

SIMRAN SINGH
vancity buzz

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Enough lists: 2015 is another good year to read books by women (Australia)

Natalie Kon-yu

The Conversation

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