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Russian MPs to Vote on Decriminalising Some Domestic Violence

By: Ruby Hamad This week, Russia is on the verge of passing a bill that will decriminalise domestic violence except in cases of rape, and where it causes serious bodily harm. This seems a remarkable step backward in a country where 40 per cent of violent crime is already committed in family environments, and where more than 9000 women were killed in domestic violence incidents in 2013 alone. Quite simply – because there is always a danger that zealous religious conservatives will be appeased by politicians that, driven by their own agendas, are willing to use the rights of women as a bargaining chip: something that can be negotiated, traded away, and betrayed. The Russian bill has been spearheaded by ultra-conservative MP, Yelena Mizulina, demonstrating once again how patriarchy is all too often policed by women who bafflingly appear to view themselves as an exception to the gender stereotype they…

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Her Name Lives On- Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE, RA (October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004.[1] She received the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid commenced her college studies at the American University in Beirut, in the field of mathematics. She moved to London in 1972 to study architecture at the Architectural Association and upon graduation in 1977, she joined the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). She also taught at the Architectural Association (AA) with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. She began her own…

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Just Before You Disregard a Lump

Lumps have perceived as the first signs of breast cancer over time however, medically, not all lumps give rise to the deadly cancer disease. How then can one ascertain which lump will carry the disease? Medical practitioners have urged women to constantly perform self-examination or visit a doctor. Cancer occurs when some of the body’s cells behave abnormally — changing, growing and reproducing more than they should. In breast cancer, this abnormal growth begins in cells in the breast tissue. Breast cancer actually includes a group of cancers that start in different parts of the breasts. Doctors call these various types of cancers different carcinomas. Here is a story of 24 years old Cecilia who ignored a lump which led to breast cancer, but was lucky to have survived: I found a lump in August 2013, but I waited because I’ve had cysts before. I was only 23, so what…

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