#25-20 Street Children in Kenya … A woman’s commitment to help
Unicef estimates there are 30 million street children in Africa. In Kenya, they are concentrated in highly populated urban slums.
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#24-20 Purna Sen v. Harassment and Discrimination … Interview upon leaving UN Women
Dr. Purna Sen is leaving UN Women after 5-1/2 years as first Policy Director and then Executive Coordinator and Spokesperson
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#23-20 20th Century Plagues … Controlling epidemics is a tricky business
From the WINGS archive: Laurie Garrett, speaking in San Francisco in 1995, about epidemics emerging around the world, with a
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#22-20 Attacks on Gender Studies … An international conversation
In many parts of the world, governments and other actors are attempting to limit or banish Gender Studies and the
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#21-20 4th World Conference on Women – Part 3 … Sisterhood and Strategies
A panoply of events, speakers and burning topics. Voices: All-woman Chinese orchestra; Helvi Sipila of Finland; Hillary Clinton; youth from Western Sahara;
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#20-20 UN 4th World Conference on Women – Part 2 … Politics, Work, and Money
25 years ago, the United Nations held its 4th and so far its last World Conference on Women, in China.
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#19-20 Beijing Memories – Part 1 … 25th Anniversary of UN 4th World Conference on Women
The conference was held in Huairou and Beijing, China, from August 30th through September 15th, 1995. Issues included in this
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#18-20 Nawal el Saadawi, exile from Egypt … On the price of freedom and the price of oppression
Nawal el Saadawi gave a rousing speech in San Francisco’s Mission District in October 1993 covering feminism, colonialism, and other
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#17-20 Safe Cities Audits … Safetipin, founded in India, covers 50 cities around the world
In 2005, the Jagori Women’s Resource Centre in Delhi began to develop a multi-stakeholder research and organizing project for women
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#16-20 After Incest … The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Excerpts from the film The Healing Years: Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse highlight the long process of recovering from
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