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Activist Sue Lenaerts helped start up one of the first rape crisis centres in the US
In 2007, the UN deployed its first all-female contingent of peacekeepers in Liberia
In 1982, Rosario Ibarra became the first woman to stand for president in Mexico
She received numerous Hugos and Nebulas - top writing prizes for sci-fi writing
In 2012, a punk protest took place in one of Moscow's main cathedrals
A woman who risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner during World War Two
In 2002, Amiera Osman Hamed was put on trial after being arrested for wearing trousers
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's career-defining speech in 2012
In 1937, geisha from Osaka sat on a mountain for a week until their union was recognised
Virologist Professor Radka Argirova was the first to test people for HIV in Bulgaria
The first ever Congress of Indigenous People of the Archipelago of Indonesia in 1999
Dame Carmen Callil, who died in October this year, founded a feminist publisher in 1972
The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women
Sampat Devi started a women's rights group in India which now has a national following.
The campaign to allow abortion in Great Britain which resulted in a new law in 1967.
In 1993 abortion laws were tightened up in Poland after the fall of Communism
Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.
In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister
The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled for 47 years until her death in 1908.
Susie Orbach's book led people to rethink body-image from a feminist perspective
The trades union activist and politician who fought for Nigerian independence.
The outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October 2006
In 2005 an unprecedented protest by Kuwaiti women won a historic change
In 1979, the Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives forever.
