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Feb. 4, 2010 – In Women’s Words focuses on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index for 2009, which ranked – Lesotho and South Africa in the top ten of countries globally, who have made significant gains in achieving gender parity.
It’s the first time the two countries feature in the Index’s top ten, in 6th and 10th positions respectively.
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Agriculture is key to women’s livelihoods in rural West Africa and to the survival of the national economies. But despite women’s crucial work on the farms women’s rights to land ownership, control and access to land continues to be neglected. The importance of African women farmers has been long recognized in international development since the [...]
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