#17-19 Rwanda Survivors … Women transformed by tragedy and cooperation
Rwanda has one of the highest percentages of women lawmakers in the world. A widowed survivor of the Rwanda genocide
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#13-19 Peace for Cameroon? … Women organizing for dialogue not war
Since 2016, when the Anglophone protests were suppressed by the government, both resistance and government use of force has spiralled
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#11-19 End Female Genital Mutilation … by changing cultural norms
Producer Diana Wanyonyi takes us to Kibera slum in Nairobi, to meet a woman who underwent forced genital cutting and
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#04-19 Traditional Courts Bill – Alive Again! … South Africa Politics vs Women’s Human Rights
The Helen Suzman Foundation called it “a cynical move to curry favour with traditional leaders.” Two months before the May
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#51-18 Social Protection Values … Building a counternarrative to financial myths
Social Protection: Definition, Context, Vision was a panel at the daylong Civil Society Consultation preceding the 2019 meeting of the
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#50-18 Women and Social Protection
Women experts dig into the economic and political issues that affect governments’ support for healthcare, cash support for mothers with
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#49-18 International Working Women’s Day 1909-2019
A lively history of International Working Women’s Day’s origin, its eclipse in the US, and its revival in the 1960’s.
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#43-18 Cameroon Crisis
Women in the crossfire seek peace A long-growing struggle between Anglophone and Francophone areas of Cameroon became violent since 2016.
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#41-18 Velvet Revolution in Media
Media women standing up to power Velvet Revolution is a documentary about women in media reporting on corruption and human
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#40-18 Youth to Youth Sexual Health Education
Youth Helping Youth in Kenya The German World Population Fund (DSW) supports youth peer education on sexual health in several
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