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New maternity leave law in Rwanda empowers women

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Rwanda’s government has approved a popular maternity protection bill granting working mothers three months leave with full pay while caring for their newborns. Parents have been pressing President Paul Kagame’s administration to revise the previous law under which mothers only received full salary during the first half of maternity leave, but were required to either return to work or surrender 80 percent of their salary for the second half.

Only one woman motorcycle taxi driver in Rwanda

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Forty-year-old Claudine Nyanamajambere is the only female “moto” driver in all of Kigali – a fact that she believes works to her advantage. Although there are more women than men in Rwanda’s parliament and women are also amply represented in all levels of government, many consider Claudine to be an unofficial gender equality promoter.

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