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Veteran Advocate for Gender and Development Takes Stock

By: Jemila Abdulai

Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, discusses progress on women’s issues as well a continued development challenges such as property ownership, maternal mortality and violence against women and girls....

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