2019-11-01_National_Geographic_Interactive

At 28, after a decade as Jordan’s biggest voice in accessibility, Aya Aghabi passed away in August 2019. Reliant on a wheelchair ...

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Working women without access to financial accounts Working women with access to financial accounts Women not in paid work with a ...

0 6 1 3. 4 Global average One country Number of countries 1 18 59 47 32 8 2 United States Estonia Portugal Germany Turkey Timo ...

1-5 6-50 51+ Deaths per 100,000 people 0.9% 47% No data Share of women experiencing intimate partner violence Afghanistan Hondur ...

China Vietnam Armenia Azerbaijan India 19.5 100% 0 Developed Economies East Asia and the Pacific Latin America and the Caribbean ...

Tragedy and necessity have created opportunities that seemed unimaginable. The challenge now: to make them last. BY RANIA ABOUZE ...

Cynthia Ikirezi (center) beams with her fellow prefects, student leaders, at Gashora Girls Academy in Rwanda. Educating girls an ...

RWANDA’S GENOCIDE MUSEUM is a haunting place, one of the memorials in the capital city of Kigali that commemorate a hundred days ...

Since 2003 Rwanda’s Constitution has required women hold 30 percent of elected positions. Today, with 49 women in parliament (33 ...

After the genocide in 1994, lawyer Alice Urusaro Karekezi fought to ensure sex- ual violence was pun- ished as a war crime. She ...

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cabinet. Viewed as an authoritarian by some, a visionary leader by others, Kagame, with his ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front, cham ...

0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 percent women in national legislature legislation addr ...

TOP LEFT Rwandan society expects women with jobs to continue bearing the brunt of household duties, says Redempter Batete, who i ...

REMAKING RWANDA 91 ...

Rania Abouzeid is the author of No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria. She’s covered the Middle East and South ...

Vestine Mukeshimana has transported peo- ple on her motorbike in Kigali for more than a decade. When she started the business, h ...