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JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. HathiTrust.

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JULY 9, 2018

Just three years ago, negotiators from around the world converged on Marrakesh, Morocco, to hash out a final deal. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. It was highly controversial. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

If you order In Search of Hope on Glamour.com , Glamour will donate 100 percent of the book's proceeds and royalties to charities (listed below) selected by the women who were profiled.

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APRIL 2, 2008

The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law. Finally, Mexico City passed legislation that made it possible for abortion to be legal in the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy, groundbreaking for a Catholic country like Mexico.

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