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KAELYN FORDE
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14 Things You Need To Know About The Heartbreaking Refugee Crisis
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Nov 9, 2015
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This Woman Refused To Be A Child Bride & Changed Her Village Forever
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Nov 6, 2015
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These Women Had The Perfect Response For Vandals Who Destroyed Their Mural [NSFW...
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Oct 29, 2015
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What This Controversial Arab Pop Star Said About ISIS Is Going Viral
An Arab pop star has made headlines around the world for criticizing Arab countries' response to the heartbreaking refugee crisis in Syria and Iraq, as wel
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Why Mwape Kumwenda Won’t Back Down
In her home country of Zambia, Mwape Kumwenda has a reputation for not giving up a good story, even if that means facing charges of treason, arrest, or sta
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The Woman Speaking Truth To Power In Russia
Anna Nemtsova did not set out to be a reporter. But after teaching English and ballet, she felt that she was “supposed to be doing something more.
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The Country Where 15 Women Are Killed Each Day, Simply For Being ...
Refinery29 has partnered with Allison Rapson and Kassidy Brown, founders of the media company We Are the XX, for a documentary series exploring the lives o
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How You Can Help Refugees Around the World Using Kickstarter
Update: With just under 10 hours to go, the Kickstarter campaign to help refugees around the world has raised more than $1.7 million from more than 26,000
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These Striking Photos Show The Birth Control Problem No One Is Ta...
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Haunting Photos Show Child Widows In Nepal
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Michelle Obama Wants Your Help To Get #62MillionGirls In School
Michelle Obama asked more than a thousand girls on Tuesday to be “hungry” for education, while also urging them to raise awareness about the mi
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Here’s What Obama Had To Say To The World’s Leaders
President Barack Obama called for diplomacy in an address before the United Nations on Monday, and didn't mince words when it came to the nations he f
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Pope Francis Has A Big To-Do List For World Leaders
This story was originally published on September 25, 2015 at 1:45 p.m. Pope Francis called on world leaders Friday to take real and immediate action to add
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This Will Forever Change How You See Refugees
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What It’s Really Like To Be An Undocumented Woman
Rocío Martinez Fajardo is petite and soft-spoken, with an easy smile and long, black hair. Standing in the parking lot of Saint Camillus Church in S
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100 Women Walked 100 Miles To Ask Pope Francis For One Thing
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Live Updates: Women March, Rally For Immigrant Rights As Pope Fra...
The 100 Women 100 Miles movement has reached Washington, D.C. More women joined the march for fair treatment of undocumented immigrants and their families
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Why 100 Women Are Walking 100 Miles To Meet Pope Francis
Update: Follow along as the women march the final miles to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday here. One hundred women are marching 100 miles from Pennsylvania to
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Photos Show How Cubans Greeted Pope Francis
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6 Ways You Can Help Refugees, According To The United Nations
The world is experiencing the worst refugee crisis since World War II as hundreds of thousands of people flee violence and civil war in the Middle East and
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If This Doesn’t Change The Way The World Sees Refugees, Wha...
Editor's note: Refinery29 has not taken the decision to publish these graphic images lightly. We have chosen to show them to draw attention to the lar
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What You Need To Know About Europe’s Heartbreaking Refugee ...
The world is experiencing the worst refugee crisis since World War II, and countries in Europe are struggling to safeguard the world's most vulnerable
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Women's Health News
Pope Allows Local Priests To Forgive Women Who Have Had Abortions
Pope Francis declared on Tuesday that women who have had abortions can confess and be forgiven by their local parish priests during the Catholic Church
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Politics
Where Police Kill 6 Times More People Than In the U.S.
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These Photos Exist So People Won’t Say “That Never Re...
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You’ll Never Look At Tarot Cards The Same Way…
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How One Woman Exposed The Way ISIS Uses Rape As a Weapon
New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi has exposed the horrifying network of sexual slavery built and run by terrorists from the Islamic S
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Death Toll In China Explosion Now At 50 People
This a developing story. Refinery29 will update our reporting as we learn more. Updated on August 13 at 10:00 a.m.: Here is what Tianjian looked like befor
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Deaths At The Hands of Police Result In Million-Dollar Settlement...
One year ago today, 43-year-old Eric Garner died after being put in an illegal chokehold by New York City police while being arrested for allegedly selling
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Why Hello There, Pluto: Dwarf Planet Gets Its Close-Up
Update: The New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its first up-close-and-personal images of the surface of Pluto — and they hold a big surprise. Alon
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