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e-Estonia was created by the Estonian government in 1991 as a movement to facilitate citizen interactions with the state through the use of electronic solutions. At the time, only half of the population possessed a
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Following the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, when between 800,000-1m people were killed, Rwanda’s surviving population of between 5.5m-6m was between 60% and 70% female. The country's new constitution, adopted in 2003, reserved 30% of
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Signed by 140 member nations and becoming effective in 1990, the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 is an international human rights treaty setting out children’s civil, political, economic, social health, and
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The Maputo Protocol is formally known as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. A significant moment in the empowerment of women in Africa,
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Although anti-homosexuality laws date back to ancient and Biblical times, their prevalence until the latter half of the 20th Century was largely due to the British Empire, which was responsible for more than half of
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Traditionally, most legal systems recognised only the traditional binary gender identities and social roles of men and women, and tended to exclude other gender identities and expressions—at least in the West. Some indigenous peoples the
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One of the most controversial policy decisions in the United States was made by the Supreme Court, rather than the country's elected politicians, who have notably shied away from passing clear legislation on the matter.
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Until relatively recently, with the notable exceptions of 18th Century Prussia and post-revolutionary Russia, divorce laws, where they existed, typically required one spouse being found to be "at fault"—which maximized the chances of the whole
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"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world," So begins the preamble
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Signed into law by President John F Kennedy as part of his New Frontier programme in 1963, America’s Equal Pay Act was aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on gender. In passing the bill, Congress
