#44-20 Sizani Ngubane, R.I.P. … Great South African organizer claimed by COVID
One of the great organizers of our times, Sizani Ngubane of South Africa, has died of COVID-19. From 1997, here
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
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Africa
#43-20 Resisting Rape in Cameroon … Speaking the truth is step one
Girls and women in Cameroon are being urged to speak the truth about rapes they have experienced, for their mental
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#38-20 Reporting in Kenya Under COVID … Problems and opportunities for women journalists
The advent of COVID added new problems to an already increasingly precarious situation for journalists. More than 600 have been
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#36-20 COVID in Kenya … Its effects on women’s economic development
Measures taken by the Kenyan government to stop the spread of COVID include imposing a curfew, travel bans, and closing
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#34-20 UN Women Marks the 16 Days against Gender Violence … with a call to stop rape and an inter-generational feminist discussion
On the International Day Against Violence Against Women (Nov. 25), UN Women’s Executive Director delivered a scathing address about her
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#33-20 Radical Futures … Young Climate Feminist Leaders Talk
On September 25, 2020, WEDO (the Women’s Environment and Development Organization) hosted a virtual “Radical Futures Roundtable: Young Climate Feminists
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#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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#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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#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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