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Topic: violence against women and girls

Katie McDonough
Students on break at Qasim-ul-Uloom school in Orangi-town, Karachi. (Maria Khwaja)

Maria Khwaja
(AP/Sunday Alamba)

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Relatives mourn over the body of Farzana Iqbal, in an ambulance outside of a morgue in Lahore May 27, 2014. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

Katie McDonough
Men and Women hold candle light during a vigil to mark thirty days since the girls of Government secondary school Chibok were Kidnapped in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Nigeria's government is ruling out an exchange of more than 270 kidnapped schoolgirls for detained Islamic militants, Britain's top official for Africa said Wednesday. President Goodluck Jonathan has "made it very clear that there will be no negotiation with Boko Haram that involves a swap of abducted schoolgirls for prisoners," Mark Simmonds, British foreign office minister, told journalists in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) (Sunday Alamba)

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(AP/Sunday Alamba)

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Marissa Alexander (AP/Lincoln B. Alexander)

"Trapped in the dark"

Victoria Law
An unidentified mother at a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP/Gbemiga Olamikan)

Katie McDonough
(AP)

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Malala Yousafzai (CNN)

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An unidentified mother at a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP/Gbemiga Olamikan)

Katie McDonough
(Associated Press)

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(AP)

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This undated image provided by the Clay County, Minn., Jail shows Timothy Jay Vafeades. (AP Photo/Clay County Jail)

Michelle Rindels
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