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Professor Miriam Ticktin’s new piece on women’s rights and sanctuary

People gather in Washington Square Park in Manhattan on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2017. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

Miriam Ticktin is the Chair of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research, and recently published an op-ed on women’s rights and the sanctuary movement in Truth Out. Check it out here!

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