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    Economic crisis and women's work: exploring progressive strategies in a rapidly changing global environment

    UN Women, 2013
    This report examines the gendered impacts of on-going global financial and economic crises in the labour market.
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    Stella Oyedepo and the feminist vision in the Rebellion of the Bumpy-Chested

    International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013
    Feminist activism and civic participation can come in many forms, including theatre. The prolific playwright Stella Oyedepo is arguably one of the most visible practitioners of theatre in Nigeria today, with plays including Survive, We Will, The Missing Ingredient, and Brain has no Gender.
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    Analytical paper: the right of women to public political space

    Nazra for Feminist Studies, 2013
    Published by Nazra for Feminist Studies, a group that aims to build an Egyptian feminist movement, this analytical paper examines the rights of women to public political space in Egypt of 2013, following a new wave of revolution which led to the removal of Mohammed Morsi from power.
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    The Raising Her Voice global programme

    Oxfam, 2015
    Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme is predicated on the alarming inequalities women systemically face around the world. On average, women earn less than half of men, while women account for roughly two-thirds of those who cannot read or write globally.
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    The internet and the Nigerian woman: a case of female undergraduates

    2015
    The last decade has seen an information revolution not just in Nigeria, but around the world. The internet is connecting individuals, groups, organisations, and states like never before. Activists, advocates and sub-cultures have all embraced the communicative power of the world wide web to connect, organise, educate, entertain, and empower.
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    The alienation of Nigerian women in widowhood

    2015
    This ethnographic study describes the plight of many women in widowhood in Nigeria, particularly in rural areas and more traditional communities such as those found in Etche, in the Niger Delta region.
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    Rapping feminism, rapping the family: hip hop, the Mudawwana, and the monarchy in Morocco

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, 2015
    Feminisms can be expressed in many forms, in a variety of complex sub-cultural systems that are full of synergies and contradictions. One such arena is music. In this paper, Casey Jo Brege examines the types of feminism expressed through rap and hip hop in Morocco, in the context of the Mudawwana and the monarchy.
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    Technical seminar on measuring rural women's empowerment: key issues and challenges

    2015
    Global success for policy actions on poverty reduction have been patchy over the last 15 years; East and South Asia have seen significant advances, but in other regions the story is different, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa where poverty has actually deepened.
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    Micro-credit as a strategy for poverty alleviation among women entrepreneurs in Nasarawa State, Nigeria

    2015
    All over the world, poor people are routinely excluded from the formal finance system, ranging from full exclusion in developing countries, to partial exclusion even in developed countries. This fact contributes to making poverty a major development challenge, with one often touted solution being that of providing access to micro-loans.
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    Literacy and education for sustainable development and women’s empowerment

    UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013
    That women comprise two-thirds of the world’s non-literate population has been a matter of concern for the development sectors for decades. Despite a number of high-profile literacy initiatives and interventions, the gender disparity is persisting in many countries, leading UNESCO to publish this report examining the ways in which literacy is approached with regard to development.

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