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2 days agoIn Beirut, refugee girls and women learn more than self-defense in martial arts class
“For me it's important to call it women's empowerment in public spaces, ” she says. “After two weeks I felt I was changing - not just in sports but my mental health and everything,” says Aisha Saqqa, 18, and a first-year business management student in college. “Mirella told us to act differently.” That includes noticing their surroundings in public instead of striving to not be noticed, keeping their heads up and making eye contact. It also includes using their voices, a challenge for some girls raised to be quiet.
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2 months agoPalestinian refugees face new displacement as Israel's bombs hit Lebanon
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, displaced since 1948, face renewed trauma and displacement as Israeli military operations intensify, forcing families from camps into further uncertainty.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months agoEthiopia's Tigray region could be on the brink of war, again
If it were possible, I would like to live in peace and return home and cultivate my land as in the past. It is very difficult to live like this with my children. Her husband, she says, had been arrested because he is Tigrayan. After his release, the family followed him north.
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