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Founder, Soft Power Strategies, Fellow NYU McSilver, ✍🏽 @Forbes; French Knight, Board of FHI 360 & Center for Repro Rights, Former NYC International Commish
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By Penny Abeywardena
| Forbes Japan Verified
ヨアヒム・オスールがナイロビの多忙な病院で産婦人科の若手医師として働いていたころ、女性たちは彼に、彼が用意していなかったものを求め始めた。 嘘をついてほしい、というのだ。 週に2〜3回、患者は「医師としての権威を使い、医学的理由で夫に『性交を避けるべきだ』と伝えてほしい」と頼んだ。彼が断ると、女性たちは動揺した。彼の拒否は結婚生活を危うくしかねない、と彼女たちは言った。 そこで彼は理由を尋ねるようになった。 答えは、しぶしぶ返ってきた。性欲の低下。痛み。口にできない不快感。最も近い相手と一度も話し合ったことのない性の問題。 「心配だったのは」とオスールはインタビューで語った。「夫婦でありながら、性についてパートナーと話し合わないことだった」 その気づきが、病棟から博士研究へ、ケニア司法長官室へ、米国議会での証言へ、そしてアムレフ国際大学の副学長へと至るキャリアの道筋を決定づけた。彼は性医学のコンサルタント臨床家であり性科学者でもあり、今も直接患者を診ている。 オスールが早くから見抜いていたのは、いくつかの問題は法律の欠如から始まるのではないということだ。言葉の欠如から始まる。...
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How Cabo Verde Turned Recognition Into A World Cup Strategy

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By Penny Abeywardena
| Yahoo Sports Verified
Cabo Verde qualified for its first World Cup this summer, and the story the internet wanted to tell was the one it usually tells about small nations: underdog we want to cheer for, impossible odds, and maybe a good game or two. That story is true enough, but it is also the least interesting thing about what happened. Cabo Verde did not stumble into the World Cup.
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The Cost Of Silence: Why The Hardest Conversations Define Leadership Original

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By Penny Abeywardena
| Forbes Verified
Joachim Osur speaking at an event in Nairobi. Joachim Osur When Joachim Osur was a young doctor in the obstetrics and gynecology department of a busy hospital in Nairobi, women began asking him for something he was not prepared to give. They wanted him to lie. Two or three times a week, a patient would ask him to tell her husband, in his authority as a doctor, that she should avoid sex for medical reasons. When he refused, the women became agitated.
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