Awareness, Experience and Engagement.
In the second part of DiA’s exclusive coverage of International Women’s Day, Cardiff University Journalism students Sara Maranon and Sandhya Kannan investigate how the revolution in Egypt is transforming the role of women within society. They spoke with Aya Faissal Abdel Dayem and Islam Sharaf, both of whom work for the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women, an NGO based in Cairo.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,” pronounced Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as India was declared an independent nation on August 15th 1947. Nehru’s joy was on the whole mirrored across India, intense violence was however to ensue across certain regions. Will Jones reports on the religious conflict in the Punjab region where fifteen million people were left displaced and over one million died.
