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When AI Becomes a Weapon: What African Governments Must Do to Protect Women Online
Across sub-Saharan Africa, artificial intelligence tools are being used to silence, shame, and threaten women in public life. Governments in the region have laws on the books, but almost none of them were built for this moment. The question is no longer whether AI can harm women. It already is. The question is whether African
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The FIAP is Gone. What Comes Next?
In 2017, Canada introduced its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). It promised that by 2022, at least 95% of Canada’s international assistance spending would go toward women’s empowerment, and half of these funds would be allocated to Sub-Saharan Africa. Nine years later, the FIAP quietly died without fanfare or public announcement. It is not a
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2025: The Year Foreign Aid Fell Off a Cliff
The latest numbers on foreign aid are out, and 2025 proved to be a record-breaking year – but not for the right reasons. It was a historic retreat, with a devastating impact. And there is no sign that aid will recover. A series of records According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s
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Improving Girls’ Access to Post-Secondary Education in Ethiopia as Key to Building Unstoppable Feminist Futures
By: Rebecca Tiessen, University of Ottawa, Yvette Macabuag, Cuso International, and Anik Cooke, Cuso International Bethlehem is a young woman completing grade 11 in secondary school in Ethiopia. As a participant in the U-GIRLS 2 project facilitated by Cuso International, she describes the impact of her participation as having changed her life: “It has enabled me to make
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