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April 19, 2010
Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 98

Dorothy Height, a leader of the African-American and women’s rights movements who was considered both the grande dame of the civil rights era and its unsung heroine, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 98.

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)