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““Let’s get this clear up front: women deserve human rights because they are human and they deserve to play a part in political and civil governance because they are part of the polity. No other justification is needed.””

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“There is an old question, rarely voiced these days, but nevertheless running as an undercurrent beneath the squabbles and misunderstandings that occur in households,…

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