From Learning to Legislation – AFELL Empowers Liberia’s Women

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DREA KNUFKEN – WNN Features In 2003, fourteen years of civil war left Liberia in shambles. 175,000 civilians had died. Nearly a third of the population, or one million citizens, were displaced, and 300,000 had fled the country. Women were involved on all sides of the war from combat to slavery to rape. Physical violence [...]

As Peace Comes Into View – Women Strike Out For Greater Representation in Northern Ireland

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Lys Anzia – WNN Features – Northern Ireland’s Betty Williams, 1976 Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize – Did you know that women make up the majority of the population in Northern Ireland? That’s right. Fifty-one percent to be exact. But even with this edge on the male population in Northern Ireland, women are underrepresented. [...]

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