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Women's rights depend on tackling social stigmas
News, Yoriko Yasukawa, Published on 11/07/2016
» Childhood was tough for Patty, a Thai teenage girl. After years of abuse at the hands of her father, desperation drove her into the arms of a much older man when she was just 13. A year later Patty, who is now 18, was pregnant, resulting in yet more violence against her, this time from her boyfriend. Patty fled again, and was forced to quit school. For the next two years, she moved between her abusive father, boyfriend and state-run shelters -- eventually settling at the Emergency Home for young mothers in Bangkok, run by Thailand's Association for the Promotion of the Status of Women.
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We must support those in need
News, Yoriko Yasukawa, Published on 01/06/2016
» As a Japanese citizen, I read with great interest the speech US President Barack Obama gave during his recent historic visit to Hiroshima and one sentence struck me like no other: "Those who died, they are like us." With these few simple words, he quietly called on people around the world to exercise their empathy to bridge the distance, however great, in time and space, to see those 200,000 people killed by the atomic bombs in Japan -- indeed all those we see as "others" -- as fellow human beings.
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