Women breaking taboos
45 videos • 12,755 views • by BBC World Service
Powerful women from around the world, standing up for their rights and their communities.
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The first sex workers' strike - Witness History, BBC World Service
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'I was just eaten up with guilt' - BBC World Service
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'I fled the Taliban and now my aim is the Olympics' - BBC World Service
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How one woman discovered her true cultural heritage - BBC World Service
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'I was Britain's first black headteacher' - BBC World Service
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The Iranian women facing jail for singing - BBC World Service
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'Daniel Ortega was my stepfather and abused me' - BBC World Service
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'My scars are beautiful' - BBC World Service
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Coronavirus: Domestic violence rises as women are trapped with their abusers - BBC World Service
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The royal wedding that changed Japan forever - BBC World Service
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Meet the first woman training to be an imam in France - BBC World Service
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'I started a publishing revolution' - BBC World Service
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WW2: The nun who saved 83 children - BBC World Service
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The Instagram witches of Brooklyn - BBC World Service
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What does it feel like to fall through the sky? - BBC World Service
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Iranian journalist who fears arrest - BBC World Service
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The woman deciding what you watch on Netflix - 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Breaking out of the cage: A documentary on Pakistan’s Hazara women fighting back – BBC World Service
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Mumbai's teenage rapper - BBC World Service
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'You wanted me dead, but look at me now' - Lives Less Ordinary, BBC World Service
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India’s first all-women newsroom - Outlook, BBC World Service
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Ms: The first magazine owned, run and written by women - BBC World Service
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Shrimps, saris and guns - BBC World Service
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A tennis legend you probably don’t know - BBC World Service
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The women who demanded wages for housework - Witness History, BBC World Service
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The real-life 'Queen's Gambit' - BBC World Service, Witness History
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The Irish Contraceptive Train - BBC World Service, Witness History
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Women in Hollywood: Styling the stars - The Conversation podcast, BBC World Service
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The 82-year-old grandmother with a taekwondo black belt - BBC World Service
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Women rewiring Hollywood's comedy circuit - The Conversation podcast, BBC World Service
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The mountaineer who broke barriers and records - My Indian Life - BBC World Service
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K-drama: Min-ha Kim meets Uhm Jung-hwa - BBC World Service
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Gloria Steinem: Bodily autonomy should be women’s rights priority - BBC World Service, BBC 100 women
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The show-stopping world of disabled equestrian vaulting - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Fighting period poverty with hand-made sanitary pads - People Fixing the World, BBC World Service
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Uhm Jung-hwa on ageism in K-drama - BBC World Service #shorts
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On the road with Mexico’s female truck drivers - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service Documentaries
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Huda Kattan: 'Beauty industry is sexist' - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Masaba Gupta on how her mixed heritage has influenced her work - BBC World Service
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The Iranian female DJs breaking taboos - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Nika's Last Breath - BBC World Service Documentaries
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Indian village midwives make a shocking confession - BBC World Service Documentaries
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Black and queer discrimination in Iranian society - BBC World Service
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The women caught out by Iran’s online spying - BBC Trending, BBC World Service
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How Iran’s women are being watched online - BBC Trending podcast, BBC World Service
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