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Special Edition on Women 2012
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African women: asserting their rights
Women are staking their claim to participate fully in their continent’s promising future
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UN Photo / Christopher Herwig
Special feature: Struggle for rights, equality
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‘Renewed energy for women’s empowerment’
“Women’s political representation is absolutely important,” says Nomcebo Manzini, head of UN Women...
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African women’s long walk to freedom
Across Africa, women’s movements are now putting more emphasis on decision-making power.Photograph...
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Battling for equality on all fronts
Classroom in Liberia: Half of all African countries have made moderate improvements in reducing the...
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NEPAD embraces women’s rights
NEPAD acknowledges that women play the predominant role in food production.Photograph: UN Photo /...
Political Empowerment
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African women are ready to lead
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf taking the presidential oath in Liberia, after her election: Partly because...
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Three women laureates
Wangari Maathai, the late environmental and human rights activist.Photograph: Associated Press /...
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North African women on the barricades
Egyptians in Cairo's Tahrir Square celebrate the fall of the Mubarak government, but activists...
Combating violence
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Taking on violence against women in Africa
Slogan on a wall in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi: Kenya has a law against domestic violence, but...
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Security reform key to protecting women
Graduates of the police academy in Liberia: Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country has...
Improving health
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In Africa, AIDS often has a woman’s face
Testing a patient at an HIV clinic in Soweto, South Africa.Photograph: Africa Media Online / South...
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Investing in the health of Africa’s mothers
Checking the blood pressure of an expectant mother in Rwanda.Photograph: Redux / eyevine / Kate...
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Gender violence hampers AIDS fight
Holding anti-retroviral medicines in Zambia: Fear of violence has prompted some women to hide or...
Economic empowerment
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Does financing benefit African women?
Few women in Africa work in regular, formal sector jobs, and even those generally earn too little...
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Women struggle to secure land rights
Maize field in Malawi: Women account for 70 per cent of Africa’s food production, but often do not...
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Tapping women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana
Selling tomatoes at a marketplace in Accra, Ghana: Women face many hurdles in expanding their...
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