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Equality -- A Survivor's Guide

<p class="p1"><a href="http://farai.com">Farai Chideya</a> speaks with <a href="http://urvashivaid.net/wp/?page_id=2">Urvashi Vaid</a>, author of books including "Virtual Equality" and a professor at Columbia Law School. Born in India, raised in America, she details how LGBT issues connect with race, gender, economic, and criminal justice issues. She also explores being a two-time cancer survivor, and how a passion for life and justice has shaped and sustained her.</p><p class="p1"> </p><p class="p1"></p><div class="media media-element-container media-feature_small"><div id="file-71495" class="file file-image file-image-png">

  
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One with Farai

Justice

After a well-known artist's tragic death, Taiwan's LGBT community demands marriage equality

Marcelo Crivella, the new mayor of Rio de Janeiro, gestures to photographers after voting during the municipal elections on Oct. 30.

Global Politics

Rio just elected a very conservative mayor. Activists are worried about LGBT rights.

'When I vote next week, I will be saying loud and clear, this is also my country.'

A transgender brothel in Istanbul's run-down Tarlabasi neighborhood.

Trans people are risking their lives in Istanbul

Members of Brazil's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community posing for a portrait inside a free residential shelter called CASA 1 or "House 1" in downtown São Paulo on May 16, 2017.

Brazil is accused of stripping away LGBT rights

Many Taipei residents visit the city's historic Dihua Street to buy goods for the Lunar New Year.

Culture

Taiwan and China celebrate Lunar New Year amid vastly different COVID levels

Syrian children who are refugees in Turkey face many barriers to learning. 

Refugees

In Turkey, refugee children face hurdles to school enrollment

Antonio Trujillo holds a cigarette while resting on a bench, in Pamplona, northern Spain

Environment

Big tobacco is forced to pay for cigarette butt pollution in Spain, but smokers may soon be on the hook

In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter from Shams al-Shamal heads to the front line in Kobani, Syria. 

Critical State

Random rules: Part II

Conflict & Justice

Court orders Canada to take back its citizens from camps in Syria

Peru protests reveal ethnic and regional divides

A security personnel speaks to people from inside the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India

Free speech

Blocking BBC documentary on Gujarat riots goes against India's democratic values, journalist says

LGBTQ

LGBTQ Russians are fleeing to Central Asia

The book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation. 

Warsaw Ghetto’s defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies 

One of the main dishes at The Pork House includes a crunchy roasted pork with beans and fresh vegetables and is paired with the Brazilian national drink: caipirinha. 

Food

Pork paradigm shift: This high-end São Paulo restaurant features pig ears and tails

Gay Rights (LGBT)

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