#46-23 Structural Adjustment … an economic tool to exploit women
Structural Adjustment is the name of an economic regime imposed mainly on less developed countries that enforces drastic cuts to
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Globalization
#16-23 Kenya Tax Attacks … Violence against protests about cost of food
Faced with record high foreign debt, Kenya’s government passed a new finance bill to raise taxes. Part of it has
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#08-23 Globalizing Feminism … Can the subalterns speak?
Excerpts from a keynote address to the US National Women’s Studies Association, by the world-famous scholar of deconstructionism Gayatri Spivak.
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#43-22 Vandana Shiva on Memory for Survival … The prescient author of Staying Alive!
Vandana Shiva, author of Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development in India, and Coordinator of the Research Foundation of Science
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#30-22 Enslaved in Kuwait: How 3 women from Cameroon regained their freedom
Believing recruiters’ lies, “Karine,” “Susan” and “Cynthia” flew to Kuwait for well-paying jobs, only to find themselves as housemaids forced
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