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Girl-Child

Ranking: How Friendly is your Government to Girls?

November 27, 2020

There are approximately 308 million girls below 18 years on the African continent. While the African Union’s legal and policy framework does refer – patchily – to the rights, interests, and plight of girls; continental bodies and national governments …

How African feminism changed the world

Aili Mari Tripp

September 25, 2018

One of the great fallacies one still hears today is that feminism started in the Global North and found its way to the Global South. Another is that universal understandings of women’s rights as embodied in UN treaties and conventions …