Women’s Agency for Gender Justice: Experiences of African Women1
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چکیده
2 PROTOCOL I feel greatly honoured to be invited to this very important event to share my experiences from the point of view of poor African women currently smarting under the pangs of globalization and its associated programmes. My perspective on this issue derives from an ongoing research conducted by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) on the political economy of globalization. UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION First I would like to describe my experience as the falicitator of a workshop on " Gender and Globalization " in Calabar, Nigeria, early 1 Excerpts of this presentation have been translated into French and published in Ch.
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