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Women Who Made It to Parliament, Rwanda

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Women Who Made It to Parliament, Rwanda

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The just concluded parliamentary elections featured women who didn't ask for equality and leadership to be handed to them on a platter. They chose to fight it out with male candidates for their respective positions. They spent weeks of vigorous campaigning and some of them were evaluated according to their previous performance.

We invite our users to read the full article published September 18 2013

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The just concluded parliamentary elections featured women who didn't ask for equality and leadership to be handed to them on a platter. They chose to fight it out with male candidates for their respective positions. They spent weeks of vigorous campaigning and some of them were evaluated according to their previous performance.

We invite our users to read the full article published September 18 2013

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Rwanda
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Elections

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