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France 24
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Annette YOUNG

Pakistani midwives on the frontline of climate change

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As Pakistan confronts a series of crippling heatwaves, it is pregnant women and newborns who suffer the most. As a result, its midwives have found themselves on the frontline of climate change. Also, as Saudi Arabia declares rights for women in the country has improved considerably, one activist who promoted gender equality in her social media posts, is now in jail. Annette Young talks to Bissan Fakih from Amnesty International about her plight. Plus, the tale of Alice Milliat, the little-known French woman who established the first-ever women's Olympics in Paris in 1922.   

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