Africa: Recognizing Rural Women as Central to Cost-Covid Recovery: An Imperative for International Women’s Day

[IPS] Rome — In times of crisis, policymakers have a tendency to prioritize economic recovery while leaving "social issues" like women's empowerment on the backburner. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, women's leadership is as essential to full and meaningful recovery as it is to basic human rights. As the world mobilizes to design and build a post-COVID landscape, women's rights, interests and priorities must not only be included in international recovery agendas but pushed to the forefront. To achieve this, womeRead the Original Article