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Women who travel abroad have to deal with a range of issues that most men dont have to consider, like where to buy tampons or whether or not the morning after pill is available in specific countries. And any woman whos moved abroad can tell you that finding a gynecologist in another country is not always as easy as it should be.

Its from these kinds of challenges that Lani Fried came up with the idea for Gynopedia, the new Wikipedia of womens reproductive and sexual health.

Gynopedia, launched in September 2016, is an open-source health care database that includes information on womens health around the world. Specifically,the sitecurrently covers 67 cities in 48 countries on four continents, but Fried wants to have a Gynopedia page for as many cities as possible.

Each page contains information on a country or city and covers critical topics like contraception, STDs, medication and vaccines and menstruation. These topics are broken down into subsections about laws and stigmas, where to find what you need and how much it costs.

For example, if youre traveling Sri Lanka and your birth control is lost or stolen, you can visit the countrys Gynopedia page and discover that birth control is available at pharmacies without a prescription.

Or maybe you just moved to Chicago and need information about abortion laws and costs. You dont have to sift through sources and waste your time. Now, you can just go straight to the abortion section on theChicago pageto find a list womens health clinics and an idea of average costs.

Lets say you need a low-cost clinic in New York, or an LGBT-friendly gynecologist in Bangkok, or the morning after pill in Lima. Well, Gynopedia is the resource for you, asserts the Gynopedia homepage.

The idea for the site was more or less born of necessity. Fried was living in New York and planning a long trip through Asia.

I suddenly realized that I was completely clueless on how I would deal with things like birth control in the dozen countries I would visit, if I had the need to, she told Broadly. Or a pap smear. Or any access to sexual health care.

Fried started with the New York page and then expanded to include the larger destinations she was visiting in Southeast Asia.

Its crazy to me how you can find a gazillion sites on the top ten things to do or see when you visit a new place, but nothing about critical aspects of every womans life, she says. I want Gynopedia to change that.

Fried began contacting local womens health organizations to make connections and gather more information. One of the first respondents was the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP), an organization which advocates for womens safe access to abortion throughout Asia. They were able to connect Fried with organizations in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

While such a resource is invaluable for women traveling or living abroad, it could also help women living in the U.S. to navigate rapidly changing reproductive lawsassuming Fried and other contributors are able to keep up.

Fried is actively seeking contributors and anyone who wants to create a page on Gynopedia can check out theGynopedia guidelines page.

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Anti-racist commentator Tim Wise perfectly explains how Trump is so successful in just three minutes. According to Wise, Trumps meteoric ascension to the top of the polls is just the latest in a centuries-long trend.

When we look around and we see today, in our politics, a rich white man telling working-class white people that their problem is brown people, Tim Wise begins, we need to understand the historical pedigree of that.

Wise explained that whiteness, a concept born in the 17th century, is a power structure that relies on dividing and conquering people of European descent. In the early days of the colonies, black slaves and indentured servants shared solidarity with white slaves and indentured servants, as both were property of elite landowners. Through this kinship, black and white slaves and indentured servants took part in various armed uprisings.

But those landowners soon realized that their grip on power could be solidified by giving white-skinned indentured servants power over black slaves by creating a race-based hierarchy.

They created this mentality that said, Youre now a member of the white race, youre on our team. Youre wearing our uniform. Now, youre at the end of the bench, you may not get in the game, but youre on our team,' Wise explained.

After creating the concept of whiteness, wealthy landowners deputized poor whites to go on slave patrols to police black slaves to quell any inkling of rebellion.

They didnt really give them any land or any real power, except the power to control people of color, which is why folks of color say and they are right in saying that modern policing traces to the system of slave patrols in slavery, Wise said.

Even though you might not have much, at least youre not black. At least youre not indigenous. At least youre not Mexican. At least youre not Chinese, working on the railroads to build the transcontinental economy, Wise said around the two-minute mark of the video. You may not have much, but you at least have, as W.E.B. DuBois said, the psychological wage of whiteness.'

Wise further contextualized Trumps popularity by alluding to how white landowners convinced poor whites in the South to fight for the cause of slavery in the Civil War, even though those people would have jobs if slavery ceased to exist.

Why would you do that? Why would I go fight for your property? Well because you told me that if I dont, these slaves are gonna take my job! No, fool, they got your job, thats the point! Wise said. If you gotta charge a dollar a day, and you can make them work for free because you own em, guess who got the gig, Jack? Not you!

Wise further illustrated how racism undermined the class struggle in the early days of the industrial revolution, when white union bosses discouraged black membership, even though it would have strengthened their bargaining position.

When you go out on strike, they cant replace your happy ass with the brown folk that you didnt want next to you in the first place. Because when they do replace you with them, then you will blame them, and not the elites, Wise said.

You see how this works? Its a trick. It has worked for hundreds of years and it is working on some folk right now, and it is our job to resist that with every fiber of our being, he concludes.

This is not the first time a Trump has come along, and it probably wont be the last. Thankfully, Tim Wise and so many other activists are there to peel the mask back on this hateful rhetoric.

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President Donald Trump has decided not to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner.

The president said he was skipping the annual event that celebrates the media but he wished them well.

Its not a big surprise as several news outlets, including Bloomberg News, cancelled afterparties and it was reported that CNN was discussing not attending.

But the White House Correspondents Association confirmed it will still hold the event.

Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter said the decision was a good move.

I want him working and not hanging around with the enemy, he told Fox News Jeanine Pirro on Justice Saturday as she joked that he might be in danger at the frivolous event.

Coulter said the organizations holding the dinner are the propagators of the biggest and most blatant lies and skipping the event is four more hours he can spend shutting down sanctuary cities.

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, warned European Union chiefs must seize the moment to "reset" the bloc in the wake of Brexit.

The top diplomat stressed the religious state in the city of Rome is "concerned" about populism engulfing Europe and said the time has come for leaders to reform the union.

Populist anti-immigrant parties have made gains in a number of European countries, including Italy, France and the Netherlands, threatening the future of the EU.

Geert Wilders launched his Dutch election campaign with plans to crackdown on migrants and polls predict Front National leader Marine Le Pen will win the first round of France's presidential election.

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It is obvious there are many tensions, many difficulties

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Both politicians have threatened to take their countries out of the EU if they win power.

Cardinal Parolin told Vatican Radio the European project must be "relaunched" ahead of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome.

He said: It is obvious there are many tensions, many difficulties, but they are also able to become, as they say, a kairos an opportune moment to reset the political relationship on a new basis.

EU member states have pledged to use the March 25 anniversary as an opportunity to "rebuild" the crumbling bloc which has struggled to cope with the arrival of more than 1.3 million migrants since the start of 2015.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to unite Europe and will join EU leaders in the Italian capital next month to celebrate the Treaty of Rome.

The Cardinal's comments come as he launched a blistering attack on out-of touch politicians.

Recognising the gap between the political elite and voters, Cardinal Parolin criticised politics for "sometimes being too distant".

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He called on leaders grasp the needs of the people, of real people, and must be able to give answers that are real answers, so that people come back to live and to hope.

The Cardinal, who has been touted as a future Pope, was speaking after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and other officials.

In a veiled dig at US President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban and calls to "Make America Great Again", Cardinal Parolin warned isolationism, is "never a good policy".

He said: The inability to welcome and integrate can be dangerous.

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History teaches us this, and we hope that in this sense it will not be repeated.

Last week Pope Francis denounced "populist rhetoric" for fuelling fear.

The Pope called for a radical change of attitude towards immigrants, saying they should be welcomed with dignity.

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Courts in the US have blocked an executive order by President Trump to ban arrivals from seven mainly Muslim countries.

Pope Francis, who did not single out any particular country in his address, said: "Faced with this kind of rejection, rooted ultimately in self-centeredness and amplified by populist rhetoric, what is needed is a change of attitude, to overcome indifference and to counter fears with a generous approach of welcoming those who knock at our doors."

He added: "For those who flee conflicts and terrible persecutions, often trapped within the grip of criminal organisations who have no scruples, we need to open accessible and secure humanitarian channels."

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