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‘Me’: On Gender Constructs

This poem is about attitudes that try to define a particular gender, and how different societal labels lead to subtle discrimination. I was born, and you looked at your weighing scales. I babbled, she smiled and filled ...

by Minal Ruhela

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Gender Based Violence: The scourge of emergencies

Even the most well resourced nation is almost always caught off guard by an emergency. An emergency can cause a humanitarian crisis which leads to a total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from conflict. In many ...

by Jermain Ndhlovu

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