Gender & Minorities

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Ms. Laura Dupuy Laserre
President of the Human Rights Council Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Palais Wilson, United Nations Office at Geneva, CH-1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland.
7th March 2012

Your Excellency,

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8 March is the International Day of Women first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911.

It is significant that the organizers of the Africa UNiTE campaign have chosen to climb Mount Kilimanjaro as a way of drawing attention to the terrible and pervasive scourge of violence against women and girls in our continent.

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Nokoko – Institute of African Studies @ Carleton University’s Open-Access Journal

Submissions are invited for the fourth issue of the journal. The theme for this special issue is: 'Actualizing Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities'.