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- 1. Emancipating Twenty-First Century Slaves
- 2. Prohibition and Prostitution
- 3. Learning to Speak Up
- 4. Rule by Rape
- 5. The Shame of “Honor”
- 6. Maternal Mortality: One Woman a Minute
- 7. Why Do Women Die in Childbirth?
- 8. Family Planning and the "God Gulf"
- 9. Is Islam Misogynistic?
- 10. Investing in Education
- 11. Microcredit: The Financial Revolution
- 12. The Axis of Equality
- 13. Grassroots vs. Treetops
- 14. What You Can Do
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