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“My dream is to have different branches in Abuja, the US, everywhere! So that the whole world will hear my name."

This story belongs to Chantal Rutonda Nyamuco, one of more than 500,000 displaced Congolese who have fled the violence that has swept over their country. Chantal, now 29 years old, still does not know what became of her family.

At four days old, he doesn’t yet have a name, or a birth certificate. The young Rohingya baby boy is embarking on a life already more challenging than most—born an unregistered refugee in the world’s biggest refugee camp.

Meet Nasro, a 17 year old who considers herself to be one of the bravest girls in the world. Her story is the inspiration for the short film Brave Girl Rising, produced by the nonprofit organisation Girl Rising in collaboration with the ̽����ѡ.

Women in their teens are joining forces with those in their twenties, thirties, forties, and beyond in Cameroon to give each other strength through crisis.

Intense street battles are engulfing residential neighbourhoods as the Iraqi army fights to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from ISIS.

A group of fifteen women huddle around a stove in a brightly painted room in the Bekaa valley in the east of Lebanon. On the walls are messages of hope. Despite the plummeting temperatures, these women have made the journey to the ̽����ѡ’s women’s centre to participate in a somewhat unusual activity. They will join 'Hala' on her way to work, through the medium of a comic book.