Gender equality – Not a woman issue but a human issue

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Gender equality – Not a woman issue but a human issue

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2020: Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many - that Bio’s “New Direction” was serious about "a new direction". The Bible and…

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