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"Recently, we have experienced jubilations heralding the overthrow of civilian administrations in Africa, people jubilating military overthrowing civil administrations, such victory songs will not last long, but it shows that Africa needs to rejig her democracy."
Is kept down and it's still. liz >> well you entered your own question, if you have half the population that is being suppressed. often violently then by definition democracy is not functioning the way it should be. and what is also true is that when women are not empowered, typically they are the ones that are the caregivers. which means children's are not empowered. so we are depriving ourselves of a set of perspectives that are vital to make the democracy work. >> so there's a new report that just came out in the last several days. the u.n. gender index. and, it shows that some nine out of ...
He Fan of the Supreme People’s Court published a scathing blog post saying the president had breached the principle of an independent judiciary.
Democracies. >> everyone claims to be a democracy. russia claims to be a democracy and claiming to be a democracy they erode, day take the sense, the meaning away from the word. that's their design. our weakness as we say we have trouble defining what makes a democracy work. the war in ukraine is clarified in a different way. one reason they're doing so well is civil society. it's the habit of cooperation that allowed the army to do so well. that's a lesson for other societies. they're making their voices known as a society. democracy is not -- democracy is about muscle, about movement, about ...
On Friday, March 3, the League of Women Voters of Wheaton will present a children's program on "Voting Is Your Superpower -- Making Democracy Work."