Rachel Borrell is Amnesty International's research and campaign assistant on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She previously worked for the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq and at Anti-Slavery International in London. Rachel studied International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Essex. Follow Rachel on Twitter @rachel_borrell
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Published in: HomePhoto essay: women's protests around the worldAnti-Trump women's marches put women's protest in the spotlight in 2017. Here are seven other recent women's...