#10-21 Wangari Maathai … on the origins of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement
Long before she was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, biologist Dr. Wangari Maathai came to San Francisco to receive the
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#04-21 Female Circumcision in Sudan … FGM is illegal again, but not forgotten
In 2020, Sudan’s transitional government outlawed female genital mutilation. Dr. Nahid Toubia thoroughly explained the practice, its health effects, its
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#02-21 Maternal Gift Stories … on Mothering, Activism, and Care
On April 24th, 2021, two well known activists came together online to tell stories from their lives about the gift
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#46-20 Uganda Women’s Network … Converting laws into actions
At the 63rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meetings, Sheila Dallas-Katzman, President of the International Association of
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#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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#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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#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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