The Icelandic women's strike fifty years on – despite closing the gender pay gap by 90%, the nation is ‘still no paradise’ for women, say campaigners
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The mystery of a North Sea message in a bottle found on a Swedish island after forty-seven years has been solved
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South Korean mother sues the government and an agency over the adoption of her missing son sent to Norway
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The Day Iceland Stood Still | Trailer
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Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
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The US tried permanent daylight saving time in the ’70s. People hated it.
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PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence
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The day women shut down Iceland
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Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
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The ‘Men’s Liberation’ movement time forgot: Nowadays, the Men’s Rights movement runs the gamut from incels to red pillers, but in the 1970s, men's libbers looked something like… feminists?
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On October 24, 1975 over ninety percent of Icelandic women refused to work – to show how much society depended on women's labor, from farms and factories to the home
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