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Zambia: Street Harassment – Women Fight Back

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Driving to work I heard a call-in radio show about a woman who had been stripped naked in the streets because her dress was seen as indecent. Not one of the perpetrators of the stripping had been arrested, even though witnesses had taken photos and videos and posted them all over social media. Callers expressed the opinion that the woman had gotten what she deserved. "Women have gone too far with their dressing; a woman's thighs are only for her husband to see," one caller said. So upset by this and similar comments, for the rest of the day all I did was research ways I could do somet

Gonzaga group brings hygiene kits to women in Zambia

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A group of students and faculty from Gonzaga University is heading to Zambia on Monday, carrying unlikely tools for social change: feminine-hygiene kits that will make it possible for young girls and women to stay in school. This is the second year the Gonzaga-in-Zambezi program for organizational leadership has added the cloth kits to the supplies and services that students share with villagers in the sub-Saharan African nation, said Josh Armstrong, director of the school’s comprehensive leadership program. But it’s already one of the more popular and meaningful ways to have direct

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