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This 9 August we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Women?s March, an event that we commemorate each year with Women?s Day. Much has changed in terms of women?s organisation since then. Today we have new technologies that can help speed communication and create networks among women. We have better access to legislation, and services ? and many more of us know our rights. Yet organising has also become more complex, with many different issues competing for women?s attention. At the same time, although there is not legislation restricting where women go, we still have a society and system that means that women are very often restricted in their movements. Gender-based violence means that many women are afraid to walk alone on a street at night, caught in cycles of abuse and poverty, and unable to access the very basic rights that the women marchers fought for.
📝Read the emotional article by @nokwe_mnomiya, with a personal plea: 🇿🇦Breaking the cycle of violence!https://t.co/6kPcu2Whwm pic.twitter.com/d60tsBqJwx
— Gender Links (@GenderLinks) December 17, 2024
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