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Without my consent, it's not your content

Once a victim of non-consensual sexual image sharing, Olimpia Coral Melo Cruz turned her trauma into a force for change. Today, her name isn't associated with a sex tape, but with a law that protects women and girls from online violence in her home country Mexico.

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An unforgettable day

Stories of how couples meet and the actual proposal are usually separate events. Not so with Iman, 8 years old, who met her groom-to-be for 10 minutes in what was considered the “engagement” the day before the marriage was to take place. You are invited to a wedding in Yemen, where nearly two-thirds of girls are married before 18.

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Ljubica Fuentes: The face against digital abuse in Ecuador

Human rights lawyer Ljubica Fuentes fled her university in Ecuador due to classroom harassment that escalated to online violence and anonymous threats. Her story is a stark example of how online abuse is real violence with devastating consequences.

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How laws and policies are addressing online violence in Argentina

Maria Julia Giorgelli is a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina who specializes in personal data protection, access to public information, gender and digital rights. For the past 12 years, she has been working on the prevention of digital gender-based violence in Argentina.

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Mothers and daughters of Haiti, living in the grip of violence

The situation in Haiti is desperate. Gang violence has forced more than half a million people across the country to flee their homes. The capital reverberates with gunshots day and night, and sexual violence is carried out with impunity. Here, in this deeply personal series of portraits, women and girls share their insight into the stark reality of life today in Port-au-Prince.