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Identity Trade-Offs Define Today’s Globalised Citizens
Written by DelalormConsistently over the past few months, there have been a slew of Western media articles on what Al Jazeera calls an instance of ‘reverse migration’. Many people who used to go to the US and Europe for a better life, are trooping to Africa to take advantage of a growing […]
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Uganda’s Lost Generation
Written by MubatsiVictoria Masika can hardly speak her mother tongue. If Victoria attempts to speak her parents’ native language she does so with an imperfect accent. “Many times I feel embarrassed when my peers speak our mother-tongue very well; which I can’t,” she says. Victoria, 20, is now in her first year […]
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The Win-Win of Improving the Status of Women Employment in Egypt
Written by Omar KandilBella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and women in the workplace: “The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes”. I personally agree 100%. And […]
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Roses are Red, but I am Blue: Reflections from Bosnia after International Women’s Day
Written by VelmaAfter surviving a war and struggling through university while living away from home in Sarajevo without financial support, I thought I had finally made it to somewhat safer ground when I was hired to work at a state institution in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian educational sector. I was excited and hopeful because […]
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Pay equality in France … how French women see changes coming in 2013
Written by alexleggett89What is the place of working women in France in 2013? The influence of women continues to be recognised as International Women’s Day on 8 March provides an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of women and the challenges they have faced in history and will face in the future […]
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Refugee brides: the bounties of war
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska“There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.” (Richelle Goodrich) It’s two years now since the Syrian people first took to the streets to protest against the dictatorial iron fist of Bashar Al-Assad. […]