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October 3, 2009
Inside Rwanda's gender revolution

Last month, Rwanda achieved something no other country had ever done before: produce a legislature in which women outnumber men.

June 4, 2009
Algerian feminist Marieme Lucas critiques Obama's Cairo Speech

Reinforcing presumed religious identities:
Where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama’s speech in Cairo?

by Marieme Helie Lucas
Secularism is a Women's Issue (SIAWI)

February 18, 2009
Assassination Of Elizabeth Wong, Malaysia

In a self-penned farewell letter, Elizabeth Wong describes the darkest episode in her life, and how she has never felt 'so alone, vulnerable and humiliated'

April 5, 2007
Women political leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean discuss their experience and challenges at IDB meeting

As part of the Round-table launched by the Inter-American Development Bank, several women political leaders in Latin-America and the Caribbean gathered together to discuss several aspects of change underway in the region in regards to equity, political participation and leadership.