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Islamic State’s Atrocities Against Women: It’s Getting Worse

May 26, 2015 • by Elise Hilton

Islamic State’s Atrocities Against Women: It’s Getting Worse

Young girls kidnapped from their beds. Yazidi women and girls sold into sex trafficking. Rumors of female Muslim teens being used as suicide bombers. It is hard to imagine that Islamic extremists could make things more difficult for women and girls in war-stricken areas, but they are. Continue Reading...

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