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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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Janet Kyerewaa at her Kantamanto stall in the summer of 2024.

Empowerment

The afterlife of fast fashion

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by Susanne Giese
Alejandra Ancheita, feminist lawyer from Mexico.

Women's rights activists

“We have taken several transnational corporations to court”

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by Alejandra Ancheita

Agriculture

Malawi must implement pro-women reforms to strengthen food security

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Students at the University of Algiers.

Women’s empowerment

Harmful impacts of stereotypes about Algerian female students

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by Khadidja Kelalech
Algerian anti-government protest held on the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2021.

Algerian feminist movement

Progress and setbacks

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by Khadidja Kelalech
The protest icons of the 21st century are mostly women: The photograph of nurse Ieshia Evans facing riot police while protesting police violence in Baton Rouge, USA, became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Our view

Women are leading change

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Cameroonians in the diaspora gathered to protest in Rome in 2017 at the start of the Anglophone conflict. The crisis continues to this day.

Women in conflict

Rebuilding lives in times of crisis

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by Glein Neneng
At the 2024 Nalafem Summit in Windhoek, Namibia – a multigenerational platform for gender commitment in Africa.

Cross-border feminism

African women on the rise

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by Aya Chebbi
Market vendor in Tanzania: Women in the informal sector are particularly affected by sexual harassment at work.

Workplace sexual harassment

“If you refuse, he threatens to cut your pay”

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by Kizito Makoye