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| - Features Editors: Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Paris: Kate Miller +33 1 4041 4636 Earlier this year UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the 21st century to be the century of women's equality. AFP is offering a long-running series of interviews with women in Asia who are tackling issues that resonate worldwide -- from global warming, sustainability, and pollution to misogyny, sexual violence, the menstrual health revolution, and fake news. As part of this we are publishing the following stories: + The Buddhist nun challenging Myanmar's misogyny + Pakistan's online agony aunt tearing down taboos Myanmar-women-rights-Buddhism,INTERVIEW YANGON In a society that urges every woman to "regard her son as her master and her husband as her god", Buddhist nun Ketumala is already an outlier. 850 words by Su Myat MON. Pictures by Sai Aung Main Pakistan-women-health-crime,INTERVIEW LAHORE "Women in Pakistan are really, really strong. We have a voice. We just don't have enough spaces to use that voice," says Kanwal Ahmed, an agony aunt to some 260,000, determined to change the situation. 800 words by Kaneez Fatima. Pictures by STR. Video by Justine Gerardy We have already published: + NZealand-health-pandemic-media-internet-women,INTERVIEW + Women-activism-Thailand-environment-architecture,INTERVIEW + Women-activism-Afghanistan-film,INTERVIEW + Women-activism-Myanmar-violence-justice,INTERVIEW + Women-activism-HongKong-economy-environment-health,INTERVIEW + Women-activism-India-fashion-economy-environment,INTERVIEW + Women-activism-Vietnam-environment-energy,INTERVIEW afp
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