Ecowas Court is already advancing women’s rights in the region, but its work could have more impact if it developed a uniform monetary compensation framework.
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Childcare responsibilities, housing access and regional cultural norms influence where Nigerian women work.
Iranian police deliberately fire at the protestors’ eyes. A deeply rooted act of repression that is older than the Islamic Republic itself.
Women in the Grafton community of Sierra Leone are often left with restricted land ownership rights.
Asia’s much touted low-cost, export-oriented manufacturing model increases gender discrimination.
When women have opportunities, a country’s economic productivity and development is enhanced.
In Kenya, the prevalence of female genital mutilation has dropped by 24.2 percentage points where an alternative rite of passage is being tried.
The Chrisland Schools incident shows how the media allows males to get away with actions that females cannot.
South Africa has a long history of women at the helm of its foreign affairs ministry but this hasn’t translated into a gender balanced foreign policy environment
Efforts to end female genital mutilation are mostly designed by global and national agencies and risk ignoring change agents like the youth who are against the practice.
Australia has guidelines for designing safe parks, but the stories of many women show these are not enough. We must involve women in co-designing these shared public spaces.
Academia is not immune to gender bias. One way to see this in action is to observe who asks questions during conferences – and men appear to ask more than women.
Recent urban disasters in Ethiopia and Mozambique resulted in high female mortality, which was been largely ignored.
India’s Supreme Court could soon rule to abolish “triple talaq”, a practice that allows Muslim men to divorce their wives instantaneously and discriminates against women.
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Associate Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Maulana Azad National Urdu University
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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, George Washington University
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Director, XYX Lab, and Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Lecturer, Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Professor of biomedical sciences, Amref International University (AMIU)
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Professor of International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria
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Associate Professor of International Development, Dublin City University
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Professor in International Politics, University of South Africa
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Eco-ethologue, Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution, Université de Montpellier
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Professeure émérite, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Assistant Lecturer, Business Economics, University of Alberta
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Assistant Professor, Head of Banking and Finance Department, Girne American University
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Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)