gender discrimination

LET NOT AMANAT’S DEATH BE IN VAIN

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I heard the news over breakfast early this morning that gang-rape victim ‘Amanat’ (not her real name) had passed away at 4.45am today. She had been flown to Singapore and admitted to Mount E barely 24 hours ago in a critical condition. Yesterday the doctors had announced that ‘the vital signs of the 23-year old […]

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – IS THERE CAUSE TO CELEBRATE?

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Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. Since 1893 when New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the right to vote, women’s emanicipation has come a long way. It strikes me as strange that women have to struggle to win what should rightfully be their birth rights. Speaking as a woman born

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