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Left, the 2020 edition of the math textbook where girls have been removed. Right, the 2019 of textbook before girls were removed.

Iranian publishers remove images of girls from math textbook, parents add them back

In northern Tunis, two police officers harassed a woman and tried to force her into an unmarked car. The image (right) shows passersby, who intervened, moving the woman away from the car. This is one of three recently reported cases of police brutality.

Tunis-based rights groups sound alarm over police violence against women

Iranian female football fans attend a World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Cambodia on October 10, 2019, at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. Source: Twitter @hosmey_v, @rozhansteiger, @shohre_naseri.

Iranian women attend football match: 'It was a dream come true'

Photos of the marriage.

Rare video of underage marriage in Iran: the 'bride' is aged 11

Screen grab of Emine Bulut video

Video of brutal murder highlights Turkey’s femicide crisis

Activists working with the Young Girl Leaders of Guinea Club educate local families about the risks of female genital mutilation. (Club des jeunes filles leaders de Guinée/Facebook)

Young Guinean activists want to end FGM during summer break

Screenshot of a video posted by a man in which he calls for acid attacks on feminist activists in Algeria (left); an activist in Algeria putting up a poster protesting the country's restrictive family code (right).

Women's rights activists in Algeria threatened with acid attacks

Tehran police confirmed that officers from a “Gasht-e Ershad” morality police unit tried to arrest two women in Tehran Feb. 15, 2019, but were thwarted when passers-by damaged their vehicle, breaking windows and tearing one door off, and set the women free

Iranians attack morality police van to save women from arrest

In Iran, women aren’t allowed to sing solos. (Photo: Negin Parsa, Instagram)

Iran bans pop group after female guitarist sings solo before mixed crowd

These women get support from a group for single mothers in Bujumbura called l'Association des mamans célibataires à Bujumbura.

How one single mother in Burundi started helping women like herself

Screengrab from the video below, which was produced by the women's rights NGO Abaad.

In Beirut experiment, passers-by shame actress posing as rape victim

A crowd of men chase three teenage girls in Egypt in this video posted on social media on August 24, 2018 (screengrab).

Video of Egypt street harassment stirs uneasy debate

Screen grabs from the video below.

Bahrain water park video sparks debate on sexual harassment

In pictures: The first 48 hours of Saudi women driving.

Pink parking, car-pooling: Saudi women mark 48 hours of driving

“In Chile, women cannot breastfeed in public because there is no law to protect them,” says this campaign. Photo: Lactancia Libre

In Chile, 'it's easier to breastfeed in a nightclub than in the street'

A Nepalese girl forced to stay in her room for 12 days after she got her first period. Photo credit: our Observer.

How being on your period can be 'like prison' for Nepalese women

Image: AFC

Iranian fans frustrated by lack of coverage of women's futsal

Screengrab from the video of a woman being harassed by Iran's morality police in a Tehran park on 18 April 2018.

Iran’s morality police assault a woman for not wearing her hijab properly

Twitter users made fun of the dancing ban.

Saudi Arabia finally allows co-ed pop concerts… but bans dancing

Police weld a pointy top to Iranian women's symbolic protest spot

Tehran police’s plan to discourage veil protesters backfires

Screengrab of a video showing a young woman being beaten by five men in Takhar province in Afghanistan.

Brutal beating video highlights violence against women in Afghanistan

These Iranian women wore fake beards to sneak into stadiums to attend men's football matches.

Iranian women don beards and makeup to sneak into football matches

Screen grab from a video filmed by Anahi Aguilar on October 8 in Miraflores, a district of Lima.

Video of woman’s attack stirs femicide debate in Peru

This video was widely shared after Saudi King Salman gave women the right to drive, a right previously denied them. People mistakenly believed that this video showed a woman being attacked after the decree. (Screengrab from YouTube)

Fake images claim to show attacks on Saudi women drivers

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