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HEAD-TURNING: Americans may be facing armed protest in all 50 state capitals around the Biden inauguration, but New Delhi, India is facing 96,000 tractors and 12 million protesting farmers, in what organizers called “the longest march in the history of planet earth” (
Belarusian women protest in Minsk, Belarus, in October, demanding the resignation of the country s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Yelena Leuchanka was lying on a cold, hard bed in a detention center in Minsk in late September when she heard other detainees singing. I just laid there because I was still in shock, she recalled. And the next thing I hear are women singing
Kupalinka. It s a Belarus song that women, when they go on their marches, they sing this song.
She joined in. I have never experienced that type of energy or anything like that, she said, this greatness, this unity.
Women’s Empowerment in the Middle East
Webinar co-hosted by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Oslo and PRIO Please note: This page refers to an event that has already taken place.
Time: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 12:00-13:00
Place: Online event
Credit: Ebba Tellander, PRIO. Photo: Ebba Tellander
Women s empowerment is a universal goal. Women s access to education, their full participation in work life, and their political engagement are prerequisites for prosperous and peaceful societies. Yet, the conditions for women s empowerment vary widely, and the obstacles that must be overcome vary accordingly. This is also true within the Middle East, a region where the general trend is that women s empowerment has been lagging behind, but also here with large variations between, as well as within, countries.