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  ruby becker

  

  Child brides sold for cows: The price of being a girl in South Sudan

  Los Angeles Times

  Reporting from Terekeka, South Sudan — When the girl was 16, her uncle told her he was taking her to the family village. Excited about the trip, she packed the few things she had. She thought the plan was to meet relatives and see the birthplace of her father, who died when she was 10. She didn’t …

• http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-navy-idUSKCN1092N0

  

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  Flipboard Newsdesk

  Jul 29, 2016

• http://www.businessinsider.com/men-in-iran-are-standing-up-to-the-morality-police-by-wearing-hijabs-2016-7?amp

  

  ruby becker

  

  Flipboard Newsdesk

  Jul 30, 2016
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  Intersex person who was denied a passport over gender designation sues U.S. government

  Los Angeles Times

  Dana Zzyym needed a U.S. passport, but the application offered only two gender choices: male or female. For Zzyym, neither was accurate. Zzyym was born with ambiguous genitalia and identifies as intersex, neither male nor female. Zzyym — who uses the gender-neutral pronouns “they” and “them” — was …

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  California officials seize computers, footage from anti-abortion activist

  Reuters - Megan Cassella

  (Reuters) - California Department of Justice agents have raided the home of David Daleiden, the anti-abortion activist who targeted women's healthcare group Planned Parenthood with a series of undercover videos, his attorney said on Wednesday. Eleven agents seized four computers and hundreds of …

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  ruby becker

  

  The modern slave trade is highly profitable and growing

  Business Insider - Gary Craig,

  The news that criminal gangs have penetrated refugee communities from the area hit by the Nepali earthquake and are offering their children for sale as domestic servants in the UK and other wealthy destinations is shocking, but not surprising. This kind of transaction is happening all over the …