• The Women Under Siege Project is an independent initiative of the Women's Media Center (WMC). The project documents online and through social media how...
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    Laura Bates (category 21st-century English women writers)
    the New York–based Women Under Siege Project. 2013: Cosmopolitan magazine's Ultimate New Feminist Award in 2013. 2014: BBC's 100 women. 2015: Awarded the...
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    Wartime sexual violence (category Crimes against women)
     192 "'Survival sex': How NGOs and peacekeepers exploit women in war". Women Under Siege Project. Retrieved 30 April 2014. Patten, Pramila (21 January 2021)...
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    Women Under Siege is a project of the Women's Media Center. It has reported on the use of rape as a means of oppression in Syria. Women Under Siege has...
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    Pakistani Army. The US based Women Under Siege Project of the Women's Media Center have reported the girls as young as 8 and women as old as 75 were detained...
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  • consolidate executive power, originally under the premise that Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. Project 2025 is the ninth iteration of the...
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    The siege of Jerusalem lasted from 20 September to 2 October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Earlier that summer, Saladin...
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    The siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys (Indian soldiers in the British East...
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    during the Holocaust. Steinem led this panel. The Women Under Siege Project, an initiative of the Women's Media Center founded by Steinem and others, was...
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    The siege of Jerusalem marked the end of the First Crusade, whose objective was Christian control of the city of Jerusalem and removing the Church of...
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    The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the...
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    Lauren Wolfe (category 21st-century American women journalists)
    Journalists. Beginning in September 2011, Wolfe directed the Women Under Siege Project of the Women's Media Center, which documents wartime sexual violence....
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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    The siege of Gaza City began on 2 November 2023, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded Gaza City, amid the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip...
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    The siege of Lisbon, from 1 July to 25 October 1147, was the military action against the Almoravid dynasty that brought the city of Lisbon under the definitive...
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    The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October...
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    The siege of Paris took place from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871 and ended in the capture of the city by forces of the various states of the North...
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    been captured by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The siege itself consisted of a joint Franco-American attempt...
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    besiegers were reinforced by French forces under de Crillon, who took over command in early 1782. After a lull in the siege, during which the Franco-Spanish besiegers...
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    Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, was placed under siege by Israel in mid-November 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war, after saying...
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    The siege of Khartoum (also known as the battle of Khartoum or fall of Khartoum) took place from 13 March 1884 to 26 January 1885. Sudanese Mahdist forces...
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    Blankman, Under Siege, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, The Hunted, Chain Reaction, Jackson, and the series V.I.P. (on American TV). Under the pseudonym...
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  • The Beslan school siege, also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre, was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on...
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    The battle of Khan Yunis, which evolved into the siege of Khan Yunis in late January 2024, began on 1 December 2023 in the midst of the Israeli invasion...
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    The siege of Bihać was a three-year-long siege of the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihać by the Army of the Republika Srpska, the Army of the Republic...
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    The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged...
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  • Barbara Plett Usher (category British women journalists)
    the Syrian President Hafez al Assad in 2000 and to do much reporting under siege in Ramallah in 2002. Her career took her to Iraq in 2003. Plett Usher...
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    Tunnel warfare (redirect from Siege mining)
    was a siege method used in ancient China from at least the Warring States (481–221 BC) period forward. When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls...
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    ISBN 1466222417. Nelson, John Carl (1976). "[2]" The Siege of Herat: 1837–1838. Culminating Projects in History. pp. 45. Lee, Jonathan L. (1996-01-01)....
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    'disaster' area amid Israeli siege". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 October 2024. While people were still searching for bodies under the rubble – and there's so...
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