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OneRepublic perform at Zermatt Unplugged 2011 in Switzerland. OneRepublic released their third studio album, Native, on March 22, 2013, marking the end of the band's three-and-a-half-year hiatus. [21] The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 becoming their first top 10 album in the US, with first week sales of 60,000.
I believe empowering women to start and grow their businesses is critical to Nigeria's development, but educating women is the real silver bullet." [ 17 ] In 2002, she founded two nonprofits, LEAP (Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability, Professionalism) Africa and Ndu Ike Akunuba (NIA), Igbo words which translate in English to Life ...
Ohene worked as a journalist at the Daily Graphic and in 1979 became the first woman in Africa to edit a major national daily newspaper. She went into exile after criticising the government of Jerry Rawlings. [3] She is a former Minister of State to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports.
The RINJ Foundation – civil society women's group focused on safety of women & children particularly from sexual exploitation & violence (founded 2012) TimesUp – organisation all around the world (famous ambassadors: Emma Watson, Meryl Streep) UNIFEM – United Nations Development Fund for Women (established 1976) UN Women – established 2010
Olga Brink: [501] First female magistrate in South Africa (1962) Leonora van den Heever (1952): [498] [502] [503] First female judge in South Africa (1969). She was also the first female to become Senior Counsel in South Africa. [504] In 1991, she became the first female appointed permanently to the appellate division of the Supreme Court of ...
Kennedy Johnson was 15 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in a Detroit foster home for teen moms, in February 1996. ... “I would meet other people in my age group, but not my ...
South Africa: The Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930, was an act of the Parliament of South Africa which granted white women aged 21 and older the right to run for office. 1931. United States, Michigan: A 1931 law criminalized abortion in Michigan except when the mother's life was in danger. [119]
Umoja, a village in the grasslands of East Africa, is only for women. As The Guardian reports, the village was ... "The village was founded in 1990 by a group of 15 women who were survivors of ...