We asked the following writers, activists and politicians the same question: if feminists could campaign for one thing, what should it be?
If there’s one thing the Arab spring taught us, it is that the media’s depiction of Arab women as passive, veiled victims was way off the mark. It showed that the image we are fed of women as passive objects is an inaccurate one – and that applies elsewhere, too. Did you know that women in Liberia played a major role in securing peace after years of conflict or that, on International Women’s Day last year, more than 100 women risked marching in Kabul to demand that they be able to take part in peace negotiations with the Taliban?
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