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    Women on the run: first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2015
    The refugee crisis currently playing out around the world is almost unprecedented in living memory. Not since World War II have so many people been forcibly displaced. While conflict in Syria and the resulting flows of people seeking safety in Europe is dominating the headlines, Central America is witness to yet another protection crisis.
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    Empowered and safe: economic strengthening for girls in emergencies

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2014
    Even in times of peace and stability, adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable members of society in low-income countries. In times of emergency, this vulnerability is multiplied, with girls facing various rights violations, including high rates of gender-based violence (GBV).
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    Global report on trafficking in persons 2014

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2014
    Human trafficking, the forced movement and exploitation of persons, is the basest of crimes and yet remains prevalent in every region of the globe, while offenders too often escape prosecution. That is the perspective of this report produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and mandated by the UN General Assembly in 2010.
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    Initial Assessment Report: protection risks for women and girls in the European refugee and migrant crisis

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2016
    Not since World War II has Europe seen such massive movements of refugees and migrants fleeing from armed conflict, persecution, and pervasive sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Almost one million people arrived through the Mediterranean between January and November of 2015, the vast majority of which came through Greece, and often via Turkey.
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    Predator and prey: Islamic feminism and the discourse of female-authored novels in northern Nigeria

    The African Symposium, 2014
    NIgeria has a rich history of women writers who have used literature to challenge societal contradictions and discrimination. Now a new generation of writers is emerging. Muslim women’s writing from northern Nigeria has attracted feminist critical attention, but the exploration of this tradition through a blend of feminism and critical discourse analysis has not been explored.
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    Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the issue of feminism in African novel

    2015
    The multi-award winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has distinguished herself as one of Nigerian’s most successful female writers, and in this essay published in the Journal for Humanities and Art Studies, Ibeku Ijeoma Ann uses one of her most famous works, Purple Habiscus, to explore the issue of feminism in the African novel.
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    Do digital information and communications technologies increase the voice and influence of women and girls?

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2015
    Do digital information and communications technologies increase the voice and influence of women and girls? That is the question asked of this Overseas Development Institute’s literature review, part of a two-year Learning and Evidence Project on Women’s Voice and Leadership in Decision-Making project.
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    How Adichie’s feminist pamphlet started a trending Twitter hashtag, #BeingFemaleInNigeria | Brittle Paper

    2015
    In the summer of 2015, a small book club in Abuja, Nigeria, met to discuss their latest book. It was an essay by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie entitled ‘We Should All Be Feminists’. Conversation between the ten women and half a dozen men of the book club turned to sharing stories about how the women had been discriminated against.
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    Meet the Nigerian woman taking on Boko Haram

    2015
    In December 2013, former radio journalist-turned-civil society activist Hafsat Mohammed was on a public mini-bus when it was attacked by Boko Haram insurgents in northeastern Nigeria. After ordering the passengers off the bus, the insurgents opened fire, killing five, and taking two women hostage in their pick-up truck.
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    Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and the Women's Union of Abeokuta

    Unesbib, 2014
    As part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) long-running General History of Africa project, the UNESCO Women in Africa Series aims to highlight a selection of key women figures in African history through the use of information and communication technologies.

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