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Women's Day

'It is a grim and enraging list of injustice. Sex trafficking. Sex slavery. Domestic slavery. Female genital mutilation. Gang rape. Rape. Prostitution. Forced marriage. Child brides. Pornography. Domestic violence. Acid attacks. Adolescent pregnancy. Barred from education. Contraception unavailable. Abortion impossible. Maternity care out of reach. These are threads in the life stories of millions of women from New Delhi to New York, and they are some of the reasons why, for all the progress made in the 103 years since the first, it is still necessary to have an International Women's Day.'