12 women (and 1 man) working toward gender equality
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12 women (and one man) who've inspired change for women around the world.
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Fahma Mohamed is spearheading a national campaign against female genital mutilation.
Gareth Iwan Jones
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Former freedom fighter Graça Machel is an international advocate for women and children’s rights.
Zahur Ramji / Mediapix / World Economic Forum
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Dr. Nafis Sadik led the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, a defining moment for women’s health and rights.
UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe
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Grace Kodindo is an obstetrician-gynaecologist from Chad who campaigns for reproductive health care as a basic human right.
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Melinda Gates has lent her voice to the push to provide birth control for an additional 120 million women in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Russell Watkins / Department for International Development
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Meaza Ashenafi is a women’s rights campaigner from Addis Ababa.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have shed light on injustice and human rights abuses.
The Aspen Institute
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Afsana Babli is a grassroots politician in Bangladesh campaigning and raising money for better maternal health in her community.
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DFID - UK Department for International Development
First Lady of Burkina Faso Chantal Compaoré is a staunch advocate for women’s rights and empowerment as well as health, education and child protection.
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Afghan Minister of Health Dr. Soraya Dalil is fighting for women’s rights and health in the country
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Anna Macauley (Mama G) has been taking family planning to women in rural Sierra Leone for more than 20 years.
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Esther Worae runs a project in Accra helping improve the lives of vulnerable female market workers.