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I'm Reena Ninen and in this season of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women,
we're following the US foreign aid news.
There are lawsuits challenging these decisions, but one thing is certain,
these cuts are having major repercussions throughout the world.
Join us
as we hear from those directly impacted on the ground and from experts about where to go from here.
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Hello, welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
I'm Luke Jones and this time in BBC OS Conversations,
we're bringing people together to share their experiences of a form of racism called colourism.
We decided to discuss colourism after the recent BBC news story about an Nigerian woman who bleached the skin of her six young children.
She bought these skin whitening creams from a local supermarket and they left her children with discoloured skin,
burns and scars.
She said she did it after pressure from her family.
They preferred her sister's fairer skinned children, but this wasn't some isolated incident.
According to the World Health Organization,
more than three out of four women in Nigeria regularly use skin whitening products.
Lighter skin is associated by many with prosperity, success and beauty.
And in India,