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Hollywood stars have spoken out against Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of Marines and National Guard troops in LA.

Protests have erupted across the world to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed today. 

Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post this week, fleeing the country she has led since 2009. 

A young woman in Italy killed by her former partner sparked nation-wide outrage over the weekend.

Climate activist Joana Partyka has been convicted in Western Australia for failing to allow police to access her mobile phone and laptop. 

Iranian professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani has been sentence to death for supporting women’s rights in Iran.

Iran’s morality police have been abolished, according to the Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri.

Iran is arresting steadily more people for their role in the protests, charging them with crimes punishable by death.

Young Iranian women have always been at the forefront of breaking down social boundaries and taboos, writes Nasim Salehi.

Abir Al-Sahlani has shown her solidarity with women protesting in Iran, using a speech to the European parliament to cut off her hair.

Schoolgirls in Iran have taken to the streets, removing their headscarves and chanting “death to the dictator”

Demonstrations protesting the deaths of women defying Islamic law in Iran have reached Syria, while Canada places sanctions on Iran.