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women’s rights

The emancipation of women is one of the most insiprational movements for human equality. Women continue to struggle for equality. Women and children are disproportionally represented among the poor and the excluded.

The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy Towards Strangers and Foreigners

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October 18, 2011
Paris in the 1900s

It is hardest to write of those things about which we feel most deeply. Today I wish to write about someone whose words and life have profoundly influenced and inspired me. That person is Abdu’l Baha: the son of the founder of the Baha’i Faith and its leader from 1892 to 1921. I wish...
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Oppression of Women: Gender Apartheid

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April 9, 2009

Full equality of men and women has not been achieved anywhere in the world.   What has been achieved has taken a century and a half.  In some parts of the world, women’s rights are so comprehensively denied that comparisons with apartheid are inadequate to capture the depth of deprivation.  
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