Kay Fraleigh became a Board Member of IAW in 1976, and from 1989 to 1996 she served as Vice-President. Since then she was IAW Honorary
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COP 24 delivered Katowice Climate Package, a “rule book” for the Paris Agreement, completing the work on the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP) and raising
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Deutscher Frauenring, DFR, for decades kept carrying on this project. In the years 1982 to 1985 I was travelling in Togo with Brigitte Pross, then
Child widows exist! There are at least a million and a half of them. They are girls given into marriage at a young age and
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Ndjamena, 18 – 19 June 2019 The International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) and its partners organized with the High Patronage of the President of
Written by Lydia Harper, UK, IAW Intern. WHO defines FGM as including ‘procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for
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