"Born and growing up in rural Zimbabwe during the war, raised by a widow and supported by my siblings to access education and become a human rights lawyer, I see myself in every statistic that speaks to the struggles that women and girls go through in life to claim their voice, rights and dignity. The issue of empowerment and rights for women is not only theoretical for me, these are practical, urgent issues that require both short and long term strategic and real transformative interventions.”- by the the phenomenal Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda on her journey into the office of UN Under-Secretary general and Executive Director for UN Women.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:38:22 +0000
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