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Women in the Middle East North African region pushing back against patriarchy

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The scales are still tilted in favour of men, but younger people with tertiary education have less discriminatory attitudes
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Mental healthcare must back peace efforts

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Examples from Rwanda and Sierra Leone can be incorporated into transitional justice frameworks
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Sigh. I’m still protesting

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Women may be tired but we must continue to fight abuse for the sake of the new generation
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SA’s women are fighting for social justice remarkable women

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Female activists are at the forefront of claiming socioeconomic rights through the courts
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Proposed New Zealand abortion law to give women right to choose

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The government plans to overhaul the country's current abortion laws
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How to get women’s voices heard in African politics

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Getting women into politics is only half of the challenge. The second half is to make sure that women are not only seen, but also heard
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Women have the power to swing the 2019 election

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But none of the parties has made gender issues a core element of their campaigns except for the Women Forward Party
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Sexual harassment still plagues the workplace

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Institutions can set up a gender equity unit such as the one at Wits University to assist victims
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Today, we are all women

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Women and men must together gather the resolve it takes for change to take hold everywhere
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Why African democracies are failing women — and what we can do to fix it

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How can we better measure democracy to reflect women’s lived reality?
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Go figure how women make a difference

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At the current rate of progress, it will take more than 200 years to achieve gender equality and female empowerment at work
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Customary wives in fight against marital abuse

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Depending on the resources they have access to, women can call family meetings to shame their husbands or use the full weight of statutory law
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2018, the year of women’s rights?

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A new report by Amnesty International has urged governments around the world to prioritise making resources available for the empowerment of women
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France ban on face veil ‘violates’ women’s rights — UN panel

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The UN Human Rights Committee calls on France to review its 2010 law banning women from covering their faces in public
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Women’s rights must include land rights

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Women around the world tell a similar tale of tilling the land and producing food but being denied secure rights to land
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