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Activism and Motherhood in Asia

What does a woman sacrifice for the cause she fights for? How are her children affected by persecution taken against her? This post explores briefly the lives of women activists in Asia who are also mothers. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Fri, Oct 23 2009

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