Refugee Women: A Step Forward

4,228 views · Published 6 March 2009 · 3:31 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2009 · News & Politics

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This year International women's day focuses on the economic, social and political achievements of women.Yet each day millions of women around the world struggle to make ends meet.  Nowhere is situation more acute than in those countries recovering from conflict.  Here's the story of how one group of women is striving for their own economic independence in the hope that one day it will help them return to south Sudan.
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