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When Margaret Snyder first started working for the UN in Addis Ababa in 1971, programmes for African women centred around healthcare and support for children. Snyder, who has died aged 91, established the first UN regional women’s programme to change that perception. She went on to launch the UN’s development fund for women (Unifem) and became affectionately known as the “UN’s first feminist”.
Her job in Ethiopia was to help establish a women’s programme at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to support women in their roles as farmers, entrepreneurs and often family breadwinners. The programme evolved into the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW).
Margaret Snyder, the U.N.âs âfirst feminist,â dies at 91
By Clay Risen New York Times,Updated February 6, 2021, 6:23 p.m.
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Margaret C. Snyder at the exhibition HERstory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations at UN headquarters in Manhattan, 2016.MEGAN SNYDER/NYT
Margaret Snyder, whose liberal Roman Catholic upbringing inspired a pioneering career at the United Nations, where she refocused the mechanisms of global development aid to include millions of women in Africa, Asia and Latin America, died Jan. 26 in Syracuse, New York. She was 91.
The cause was cardiac arrest, her nephew James Snyder said.
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Daily Monitor
Sunday January 24 2021
Summary
Mr Museveni, who studied the psychology of Ugandans early in his life, tested, exploited and has used it to his advantage to the maximum.
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The just concluded electoral charade that saw the whipping of innocent citizens on the streets, torture and detention of journalists, civil society employees, election observers and, tragically unprecedented loss of innocent lives was a mere confirmation of what UPC and its leaders did, and have always told Ugandans and the world.
Mr Museveni, who studied the psychology of Ugandans early in his life, tested, exploited and has used it to his advantage to the maximum. He never was a democrat and neither was he ever a nationalist. Even within the context of ideological left or right, he is simply absent; the man moves with the wind – depending on which side will butter his bread best. I will expound: