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Women Who Dared To Speak Episodes Available now
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Taslima Nasrin - Bangladesh
Taslima Nasrin, an author and feminist in Bangladesh who has condemned Islamic law there
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Jadranka Cigelj - Bosnia
Jadranka Cigelj has worked ceaselessly to have rape prosecuted as a war crime
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Olayinka Koso-Thomas - Sierra Leone
Warning: personal accounts and very graphic descriptions of female genital mutilation
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Virginia Vargas - Peru
In her fight for women's rights she has clashed with the Catholic church and Shining Path
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Dr Zhang Shuyun - Saving China's Orphans
A doctor who took on the might of the Chinese government and was forced to flee
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Fatana Gailani - An Afghan Crusader
An Afghan woman threatened for educated and articulate criticism of the Taliban